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6.12 The promiscuous module

Synopsis

Module Name:

pam_permit

Author:

Andrew G. Morgan, <morgan@parc.power.net>

Maintainer:

Linux-PAM maintainer.

Management groups provided:

account; authentication; password; session

Cryptographically sensitive:

Security rating:

VERY LOW. Use with extreme caution.

Clean code base:

Clean.

System dependencies:

Network aware:

Overview of module

This module is very dangerous. It should be used with extreme caution. Its action is always to permit access. It does nothing else.

Account+Authentication+Password+Session components

Recognized arguments:

Description:

No matter what management group, the action of this module is to simply return PAM_SUCCESS -- operation successful.

In the case of authentication, the user's name will be acquired. Many applications become confused if this name is unknown.

Examples/suggested usage:

It is seldom a good idea to use this module. However, it does have some legitimate uses. For example, if the system-administrator wishes to turn off the account management on a workstation, and at the same time continue to allow logins, then she might use the following configuration file entry for login:

#
# add this line to your other login entries to disable account
# management, but continue to permit users to log in...
#
login   account  required       pam_permit.so


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