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diff --git a/modules/pam_exec/README b/modules/pam_exec/README index 8451ef03..8ff9a742 100644 --- a/modules/pam_exec/README +++ b/modules/pam_exec/README @@ -1,29 +1,42 @@ +pam_exec — PAM module which calls an external command -pam_exec module: - Call <prog> <arguments> +━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ +DESCRIPTION -USAGE: - For the services you wish to run a program put the following - line in the config as the last line for that service: +pam_exec is a PAM module that can be used to run an external command. - <type> required pam_exec.so [options] /path/prog ... +OPTIONS - and pam_exec.so will run "/path/prog ...". +debug + Print debug information. -OPTIONS: +log=file - debug print debug informations + The output of the command is appended to file - seteuid pam_exec.so will call setuid(seteuid()), so that - the program will run with the same rights as the - calling applications (effective user ID). The - default is that the program will be run with the - permissions of the calling user (real user ID). +seteuid - log=<file> the output is appended to this file. + Per default pam_exec.so will execute the external command with the real + user ID of the calling process. Specifying this option means the command is + run with the effective user ID. +EXAMPLES + +Add the following line to /etc/pam.d/passwd to rebuild the NIS database after +each local password change: + + passwd optional pam_exec.so seteuid make -C /var/yp + + +This will execute the command + +make -C /var/yp + +with effective user ID. + +AUTHOR + +pam_exec was written by Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@thkukuk.de>. -AUTHOR: - Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@thkukuk.de> |