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diff --git a/modules/pam_rootok/README b/modules/pam_rootok/README deleted file mode 100644 index 55a44756..00000000 --- a/modules/pam_rootok/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,33 +0,0 @@ -pam_rootok — Gain only root access - -━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ - -DESCRIPTION - -pam_rootok is a PAM module that authenticates the user if their UID is 0. -Applications that are created setuid-root generally retain the UID of the user -but run with the authority of an enhanced effective-UID. It is the real UID -that is checked. - -OPTIONS - -debug - - Print debug information. - -EXAMPLES - -In the case of the su(1) application the historical usage is to permit the -superuser to adopt the identity of a lesser user without the use of a password. -To obtain this behavior with PAM the following pair of lines are needed for the -corresponding entry in the /etc/pam.d/su configuration file: - -# su authentication. Root is granted access by default. -auth sufficient pam_rootok.so -auth required pam_unix.so - - -AUTHOR - -pam_rootok was written by Andrew G. Morgan, <morgan@kernel.org>. - |