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pam_securetty — SecureTTY PAM module

[service-name] module-type control-flag pam_securetty [options]

The SecureTTY service module for PAM, pam_securetty provides functionality for only one PAM category: account management. In terms of the module-type parameter, this is the “account” feature. It also provides null functions for authentication and session management.

The SecureTTY account management component (()), returns failure if the user is attempting to authenticate as superuser, and the process is attached to an insecure TTY. In all other cases, the module returns success.

A TTY is considered secure if it is listed in /etc/ttys and has the TTY_SECURE flag set.

The following options may be passed to the authentication module:

syslog(3) debugging information at LOG_DEBUG level.
suppress warning messages to the user. These messages include reasons why the user's authentication attempt was declined.

getttynam(3), syslog(3), pam.conf(5), ttys(5), pam(8)

July 8, 2001 midnightbsd-3.1