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pam_issue — PAM module to add issue file to user prompt

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DESCRIPTION

pam_issue is a PAM module to prepend an issue file to the username prompt. It
also by default parses escape codes in the issue file similar to some common
getty's (using \x format).

Recognized escapes:

current day

name of this tty

machine architecture (uname -m)

machine's network node hostname (uname -n)

domain name of this system

release number of operating system (uname -r)

current time

operating system name (uname -s)

number of users currently logged in

same as \u except it is suffixed with "user" or "users" (eg. "1 user" or
    "10 users")

operating system version and build date (uname -v)

OPTIONS

noesc

Turns off escape code parsing.

issue=issue-file-name

The file to output if not using the default.

EXAMPLES

Add the following line to /etc/pam.d/login to set the user specific issue at
login:

auth optional pam_issue.so issue=/etc/issue

AUTHOR

pam_issue was written by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>.

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