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pam_localuser — require users to be listed in /etc/passwd

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DESCRIPTION

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.

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.

OPTIONS

debug

Print debug information.

file=/path/passwd

Use a file other than /etc/passwd.

EXAMPLES

Add the following line to /etc/pam.d/su to allow only local users in group
wheel to use su.

account sufficient pam_localuser.so
account required pam_wheel.so

AUTHOR

pam_localuser was written by Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com>.

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