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6.19 Warning logger module

Synopsis

Module Name:

pam_warn

Author:

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

Maintainer:

Author.

Management groups provided:

authentication; password

Cryptographically sensitive:

Security rating:

Clean code base:

System dependencies:

Network aware:

logs information about the remote user and host (if pam-items are known)

Overview of module

This module is principally for logging information about a proposed authentication or application to update a password.

Authentication+Password component

Recognized arguments:

Description:

Log the service, terminal, user, remote user and remote host to syslog(3). The items are not probed for, but instead obtained from the standard pam-items.

Examples/suggested usage:

an example is provided in the configuration file section above.


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