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diff --git a/modules/pam_securetty/README b/modules/pam_securetty/README index 1df095c9..d4ee5f97 100644 --- a/modules/pam_securetty/README +++ b/modules/pam_securetty/README @@ -1,9 +1,33 @@ -pam_securetty: - Allows root logins only if the user is logging in on a - "secure" tty, as defined by the listing in /etc/securetty +pam_securetty — Limit root login to special devices - Also checks to make sure that /etc/securetty is a plain - file and not world writable. +━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ + +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 /etc/securetty. +pam_securetty also checks to make sure that /etc/securetty is a plain file and +not world writable. + +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. + +EXAMPLES + +auth required pam_securetty.so +auth required pam_unix.so + + +AUTHOR + +pam_securetty was written by Elliot Lee <sopwith@cuc.edu>. - - Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com>, Red Hat Software. - July 25, 1996. |