Dr Andrew Scott
G7VAV
Senior Lecturer
School of Computing
and Communications
D35 InfoLab21
Lancaster University
Lancaster, LA1 4WA
United Kingdom
School of Computing
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D35 InfoLab21
Lancaster University
Lancaster, LA1 4WA
United Kingdom
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PAM_SHELLS
Section: Linux-PAM Manual (8)Updated: 06/04/2011
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NAME
pam_shells - PAM module to check for valid login shellSYNOPSIS
- pam_shells.so
DESCRIPTION
It also checks if /etc/shells is a plain file and not world writable.
OPTIONS
This module does not recognise any options.
MODULE TYPES PROVIDED
The auth and account module types are provided.
RETURN VALUES
PAM_AUTH_ERR
- Access to the system was denied.
PAM_SUCCESS
- The users login shell was listed as valid shell in /etc/shells.
PAM_SERVICE_ERR
- The module was not able to get the name of the user.
EXAMPLES
-
auth required pam_shells.so
SEE ALSO
shells(5), pam.conf(5), pam.d(5), pam(7)
AUTHOR
pam_shells was written by Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>.
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