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<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" version="5.0" xml:id="pam_localuser">

  <refmeta>
    <refentrytitle>pam_localuser</refentrytitle>
    <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
    <refmiscinfo class="source">Linux-PAM</refmiscinfo>
    <refmiscinfo class="manual">Linux-PAM Manual</refmiscinfo>
  </refmeta>

  <refnamediv xml:id="pam_localuser-name">
    <refname>pam_localuser</refname>
    <refpurpose>require users to be listed in /etc/passwd</refpurpose>
  </refnamediv>

  <refsynopsisdiv>
    <cmdsynopsis xml:id="pam_localuser-cmdsynopsis" sepchar=" ">
      <command>pam_localuser.so</command>
      <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat">
	debug
      </arg>
      <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat">
        file=<replaceable>/path/passwd</replaceable>
      </arg>
    </cmdsynopsis>
  </refsynopsisdiv>

  <refsect1 xml:id="pam_localuser-description">

    <title>DESCRIPTION</title>

    <para>
      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.
    </para>
    <para>
      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.
    </para>

  </refsect1>

  <refsect1 xml:id="pam_localuser-options">

    <title>OPTIONS</title>
    <para>
      <variablelist>

        <varlistentry>
          <term>
            debug
          </term>
          <listitem>
            <para>
	      Print debug information.
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>

        <varlistentry>
          <term>
            file=/path/passwd
          </term>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              Use a file other than <filename>/etc/passwd</filename>.
            </para>
          </listitem>
	</varlistentry>

      </variablelist>

    </para>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1 xml:id="pam_localuser-types">
    <title>MODULE TYPES PROVIDED</title>
    <para>
      All module types (<option>account</option>, <option>auth</option>,
      <option>password</option> and <option>session</option>) are provided.
    </para>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1 xml:id="pam_localuser-return_values">
    <title>RETURN VALUES</title>
    <para>
      <variablelist>

        <varlistentry>
          <term>PAM_SUCCESS</term>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              The new localuser was set successfully.
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>

        <varlistentry>
          <term>PAM_BUF_ERR</term>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              Memory buffer error.
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>

        <varlistentry>
          <term>PAM_CONV_ERR</term>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              The conversation method supplied by the application
              failed to obtain the username.
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>

        <varlistentry>
          <term>PAM_INCOMPLETE</term>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              The conversation method supplied by the application
              returned PAM_CONV_AGAIN.
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>

        <varlistentry>
          <term>PAM_SERVICE_ERR</term>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              The user name is not valid or the passwd file is unavailable.
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>

        <varlistentry>
          <term>PAM_PERM_DENIED</term>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              The user is not listed in the passwd file.
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>

      </variablelist>
    </para>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1 xml:id="pam_localuser-examples">
    <title>EXAMPLES</title>
    <para>
      Add the following lines to <filename>/etc/pam.d/su</filename> to
      allow only local users or group wheel to use su.
      <programlisting>
account sufficient pam_localuser.so
account required pam_wheel.so
      </programlisting>
    </para>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1 xml:id="pam_localuser-files">
    <title>FILES</title>
    <variablelist>
      <varlistentry>
        <term>/etc/passwd</term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Local user account information.</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1 xml:id="pam_localuser-see_also">
    <title>SEE ALSO</title>
    <para>
      <citerefentry>
	<refentrytitle>pam.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
      </citerefentry>,
      <citerefentry>
	<refentrytitle>pam.d</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
      </citerefentry>,
      <citerefentry>
	<refentrytitle>pam</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
      </citerefentry>
    </para>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1 xml:id="pam_localuser-author">
    <title>AUTHOR</title>
      <para>
        pam_localuser was written by Nalin Dahyabhai &lt;nalin@redhat.com&gt;.
      </para>
  </refsect1>

</refentry>