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diff --git a/modules/pam_securetty/README b/modules/pam_securetty/README deleted file mode 100644 index 86dbe348..00000000 --- a/modules/pam_securetty/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,42 +0,0 @@ -pam_securetty — Limit root login to special devices - -━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ - -DESCRIPTION - -pam_securetty is a PAM module that allows root logins only if the user is -logging in on a "secure" tty, as defined by the listing in the securetty file. -pam_securetty checks at first, if /etc/securetty exists. If not and it was -built with vendordir support, it will use %vendordir%/securetty. pam_securetty -also checks that the securetty files are plain files and not world writable. It -will also allow root logins on the tty specified with console= switch on the -kernel command line and on ttys from the /sys/class/tty/console/active. - -This module has no effect on non-root users and requires that the application -fills in the PAM_TTY item correctly. - -For canonical usage, should be listed as a required authentication method -before any sufficient authentication methods. - -OPTIONS - -debug - - Print debug information. - -noconsole - - Do not automatically allow root logins on the kernel console device, as - specified on the kernel command line or by the sys file, if it is not also - specified in the securetty file. - -EXAMPLES - -auth required pam_securetty.so -auth required pam_unix.so - - -AUTHOR - -pam_securetty was written by Elliot Lee <sopwith@cuc.edu>. - |