summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/modules/pam_group/group.conf.5
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'modules/pam_group/group.conf.5')
-rw-r--r--modules/pam_group/group.conf.5119
1 files changed, 119 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/modules/pam_group/group.conf.5 b/modules/pam_group/group.conf.5
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..933a22ec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/pam_group/group.conf.5
@@ -0,0 +1,119 @@
+'\" t
+.\" Title: group.conf
+.\" Author: [see the "AUTHOR" section]
+.\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets v1.78.1 <http://docbook.sf.net/>
+.\" Date: 05/18/2017
+.\" Manual: Linux-PAM Manual
+.\" Source: Linux-PAM Manual
+.\" Language: English
+.\"
+.TH "GROUP\&.CONF" "5" "05/18/2017" "Linux-PAM Manual" "Linux\-PAM Manual"
+.\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
+.\" * Define some portability stuff
+.\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
+.\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+.\" http://bugs.debian.org/507673
+.\" http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2009-02/msg00013.html
+.\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+.ie \n(.g .ds Aq \(aq
+.el .ds Aq '
+.\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
+.\" * set default formatting
+.\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
+.\" disable hyphenation
+.nh
+.\" disable justification (adjust text to left margin only)
+.ad l
+.\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
+.\" * MAIN CONTENT STARTS HERE *
+.\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
+.SH "NAME"
+group.conf \- configuration file for the pam_group module
+.SH "DESCRIPTION"
+.PP
+The pam_group PAM module does not authenticate the user, but instead it grants group memberships (in the credential setting phase of the authentication module) to the user\&. Such memberships are based on the service they are applying for\&.
+.PP
+For this module to function correctly there must be a correctly formatted
+/etc/security/group\&.conf
+file present\&. White spaces are ignored and lines maybe extended with \*(Aq\e\*(Aq (escaped newlines)\&. Text following a \*(Aq#\*(Aq is ignored to the end of the line\&.
+.PP
+The syntax of the lines is as follows:
+.PP
+\fIservices\fR;\fIttys\fR;\fIusers\fR;\fItimes\fR;\fIgroups\fR
+.PP
+The first field, the
+\fIservices\fR
+field, is a logic list of PAM service names that the rule applies to\&.
+.PP
+The second field, the
+\fItty\fR
+field, is a logic list of terminal names that this rule applies to\&.
+.PP
+The third field, the
+\fIusers\fR
+field, is a logic list of users, or a UNIX group, or a netgroup of users to whom this rule applies\&. Group names are preceded by a \*(Aq%\*(Aq symbol, while netgroup names are preceded by a \*(Aq@\*(Aq symbol\&.
+.PP
+For these items the simple wildcard \*(Aq*\*(Aq may be used only once\&. With UNIX groups or netgroups no wildcards or logic operators are allowed\&.
+.PP
+The
+\fItimes\fR
+field is used to indicate "when" these groups are to be given to the user\&. The format here is a logic list of day/time\-range entries\&. The days are specified by a sequence of two character entries, MoTuSa for example is Monday Tuesday and Saturday\&. Note that repeated days are unset MoMo = no day, and MoWk = all weekdays bar Monday\&. The two character combinations accepted are Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Wk Wd Al, the last two being week\-end days and all 7 days of the week respectively\&. As a final example, AlFr means all days except Friday\&.
+.PP
+Each day/time\-range can be prefixed with a \*(Aq!\*(Aq to indicate "anything but"\&. The time\-range part is two 24\-hour times HHMM, separated by a hyphen, indicating the start and finish time (if the finish time is smaller than the start time it is deemed to apply on the following day)\&.
+.PP
+The
+\fIgroups\fR
+field is a comma or space separated list of groups that the user inherits membership of\&. These groups are added if the previous fields are satisfied by the user\*(Aqs request\&.
+.PP
+For a rule to be active, ALL of service+ttys+users must be satisfied by the applying process\&.
+.SH "EXAMPLES"
+.PP
+These are some example lines which might be specified in
+/etc/security/group\&.conf\&.
+.PP
+Running \*(Aqxsh\*(Aq on tty* (any ttyXXX device), the user \*(Aqus\*(Aq is given access to the floppy (through membership of the floppy group)
+.sp
+.if n \{\
+.RS 4
+.\}
+.nf
+xsh;tty*&!ttyp*;us;Al0000\-2400;floppy
+.fi
+.if n \{\
+.RE
+.\}
+.PP
+Running \*(Aqxsh\*(Aq on tty* (any ttyXXX device), the users \*(Aqsword\*(Aq, \*(Aqpike\*(Aq and \*(Aqshield\*(Aq are given access to games (through membership of the floppy group) after work hours\&.
+.sp
+.if n \{\
+.RS 4
+.\}
+.nf
+xsh; tty* ;sword|pike|shield;!Wk0900\-1800;games, sound
+xsh; tty* ;*;Al0900\-1800;floppy
+
+.fi
+.if n \{\
+.RE
+.\}
+.PP
+Any member of the group \*(Aqadmin\*(Aq running \*(Aqxsh\*(Aq on tty*, is granted access (at any time) to the group \*(Aqplugdev\*(Aq
+.sp
+.if n \{\
+.RS 4
+.\}
+.nf
+xsh; tty* ;%admin;Al0000\-2400;plugdev
+
+.fi
+.if n \{\
+.RE
+.\}
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.PP
+\fBpam_group\fR(8),
+\fBpam.d\fR(5),
+\fBpam\fR(8)
+.SH "AUTHOR"
+.PP
+pam_group was written by Andrew G\&. Morgan <morgan@kernel\&.org>\&.