centos man page for pam_localuser

Query: pam_localuser

OS: centos

Section: 8

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PAM_LOCALUSER(8)						 Linux-PAM Manual						  PAM_LOCALUSER(8)

NAME
pam_localuser - require users to be listed in /etc/passwd
SYNOPSIS
pam_localuser.so [debug] [file=/path/passwd]
DESCRIPTION
pam_localuser is a PAM module to help implementing site-wide login policies, where they typically include a subset of the network's users and a few accounts that are local to a particular workstation. Using pam_localuser and pam_wheel or pam_listfile is an effective way to restrict access to either local users and/or a subset of the network's users. This could also be implemented using pam_listfile.so and a very short awk script invoked by cron, but it's common enough to have been separated out.
OPTIONS
debug Print debug information. file=/path/passwd Use a file other than /etc/passwd.
MODULE TYPES PROVIDED
All module types (account, auth, password and session) are provided.
RETURN VALUES
PAM_SUCCESS The new localuser was set successfully. PAM_SERVICE_ERR No username was given. PAM_USER_UNKNOWN User not known.
EXAMPLES
Add the following line to /etc/pam.d/su to allow only local users in group wheel to use su. account sufficient pam_localuser.so account required pam_wheel.so
FILES
/etc/passwd Local user account information.
SEE ALSO
pam.conf(5), pam.d(5), pam(8)
AUTHOR
pam_localuser was written by Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com>. Linux-PAM Manual 09/19/2013 PAM_LOCALUSER(8)
Related Man Pages
pam_localuser(8) - centos
pam_wheel(8) - debian
pam_exec(8) - suse
pam_localuser(8) - suse
pam_make(8) - suse
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