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| author | Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-01-24 13:35:06 +0000 |
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| committer | Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-01-24 13:35:06 +0000 |
| commit | f433d6afed50d2f9f8ee32c54e49e42a4f80e7b1 (patch) | |
| tree | 0ad58e3ec477d5c9d0d35da4a74cb907848dc33f /lib/libpam | |
| parent | 76f95f4dc26720671d2c099f7d9e16924ba7b062 (diff) | |
| download | src-f433d6afed50d2f9f8ee32c54e49e42a4f80e7b1.tar.gz src-f433d6afed50d2f9f8ee32c54e49e42a4f80e7b1.zip | |
Document the even_root option.
Sponsored by: DARPA, NAI Labs
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svn path=/head/; revision=89734
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libpam')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libpam/modules/pam_self/pam_self.8 | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libpam/modules/pam_self/pam_self.8 b/lib/libpam/modules/pam_self/pam_self.8 index 8bc6db52dd76..7344ab442d12 100644 --- a/lib/libpam/modules/pam_self/pam_self.8 +++ b/lib/libpam/modules/pam_self/pam_self.8 @@ -62,9 +62,13 @@ The Self authentication component .Pq Fn pam_sm_authenticate , returns success if and only if the target user's user ID is identical with the current real user ID. +If the current real user ID is non-zero, authentication will fail, +unless the +.Cm even_root +option was specified. .Pp The following options may be passed to the authentication module: -.Bl -tag -width ".Cm no_warn" +.Bl -tag -width ".Cm even_root" .It Cm debug .Xr syslog 3 debugging information at @@ -74,6 +78,8 @@ level. suppress warning messages to the user. These messages include reasons why the user's authentication attempt was declined. +.It Cm even_root +do not automatically fail if the current real user ID is 0. .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr getuid 2 , |