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PAM.CONF(5) BSD File Formats Manual PAM.CONF(5) NAME pam.conf -- PAM policy file format DESCRIPTION The PAM library searches for policies in the following files, in decreas- ing order of preference: 1. /etc/pam.d/service-name 2. /etc/pam.conf 3. /usr/local/etc/pam.d/service-name 4. /usr/local/etc/pam.conf If none of these locations contains a policy for the given service, the "other" policy is used instead, if it exists. Entries in per-service policy files must be of one of the two forms be- low: facility control-flag module-path [arguments ...] facility include other-service-name Entries in pam.conf-style policy files are of the same form, but are pre- fixed by an additional field specifying the name of the service they ap- ply to. In both types of policy files, blank lines are ignored, as is anything to the right of a `#' sign. The facility field specifies the facility the entry applies to, and is one of: auth Authentication functions (pam_authenticate(3), pam_setcred(3)) account Account management functions (pam_acct_mgmt(3)) session Session handling functions (pam_open_session(3), pam_close_session(3)) password Password management functions (pam_chauthtok(3)) The control-flag field determines how the result returned by the module affects the flow of control through (and the final result of) the rest of the chain, and is one of: required If this module succeeds, the result of the chain will be suc- cess unless a later module fails. If it fails, the rest of the chain still runs, but the final result will be failure regardless of the success of later modules. requisite If this module succeeds, the result of the chain will be suc- cess unless a later module fails. If the module fails, the chain is broken and the result is failure. sufficient If this module succeeds, the chain is broken and the result is success. If it fails, the rest of the chain still runs, but the final result will be failure unless a later module succeeds. binding If this module succeeds, the chain is broken and the result is success. If it fails, the rest of the chain still runs, but the final result will be failure regardless of the suc- cess of later modules. optional If this module succeeds, the result of the chain will be suc- cess unless a later module fails. If this module fails, the result of the chain will be failure unless a later module succeeds. There are two exceptions to the above: sufficient and binding modules are treated as optional by pam_setcred(3), and in the PAM_PRELIM_CHECK phase of pam_chauthtok(3). The module-path field specifies the name, or optionally the full path, of the module to call. The remaining fields are passed as arguments to the module if and when it is invoked. As a special case, if an argument is of the form ``name=value'' and the right-hand side is surrounded by single or double quotes, any whitespace between the quote characters will be considered part of the same argument rather than a separator between this argument and the next. The include form of entry causes entries from a different chain (speci- fied by other-system-name) to be included in the current one. This al- lows one to define system-wide policies which are then included into ser- vice-specific policies. The system-wide policy can then be modified without having to also modify each and every service-specific policy. SEE ALSO pam(3) STANDARDS X/Open Single Sign-On Service (XSSO) - Pluggable Authentication Modules, June 1997. AUTHORS The OpenPAM library was developed for the FreeBSD Project by ThinkSec AS and Network Associates Laboratories, the Security Research Division of Network Associates, Inc. under DARPA/SPAWAR contract N66001-01-C-8035 ("CBOSS"), as part of the DARPA CHATS research program. The OpenPAM library is maintained by Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@des.no>. BSD May 26, 2012 BSD
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