PAM_SELF(8) BSD System Manager's Manual PAM_SELF(8)NAME
pam_self — Self PAM module
SYNOPSIS
[service-name] module-type control-flag pam_self [options]
DESCRIPTION
The Self authentication service module for PAM, pam_self provides func‐
tionality for only one PAM category: authentication. In terms of the
module-type parameter, this is the “auth” feature.
Self Authentication Module
The Self authentication component (pam_sm_authenticate()), returns suc‐
cess if and only if the target user's user ID is identical with the cur‐
rent real user ID. If the current real user ID is zero, authentication
will fail, unless the allow_root option was specified.
The following options may be passed to the authentication module:
debug syslog(3) debugging information at LOG_DEBUG level.
no_warn suppress warning messages to the user. These messages
include reasons why the user's authentication attempt was
declined.
allow_root do not automatically fail if the current real user ID is 0.
SEE ALSOgetuid(2), pam.conf(5), pam(8)AUTHORS
The pam_self module and this manual page were developed for the FreeBSD
Project by ThinkSec AS and NAI Labs, the Security Research Division of
Network Associates, Inc. under DARPA/SPAWAR contract N66001-01-C-8035
(“CBOSS”), as part of the DARPA CHATS research program.
BSD December 5, 2001 BSD