.\"     Title: access.conf
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.\"    Manual: Linux-PAM Manual
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.TH "ACCESS\&.CONF" "5" "10/27/2010" "Linux-PAM Manual" "Linux\-PAM Manual"
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.SH "Name"
access.conf \- the login access control table file
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.PP
The
\FC/etc/security/access\&.conf\F[]
file specifies (\fIuser/group\fR,
\fIhost\fR), (\fIuser/group\fR,
\fInetwork/netmask\fR) or (\fIuser/group\fR,
\fItty\fR) combinations for which a login will be either accepted or refused\&.
.PP
When someone logs in, the file
\FCaccess\&.conf\F[]
is scanned for the first entry that matches the (\fIuser/group\fR,
\fIhost\fR) or (\fIuser/group\fR,
\fInetwork/netmask\fR) combination, or, in case of non\-networked logins, the first entry that matches the (\fIuser/group\fR,
\fItty\fR) combination\&. The permissions field of that table entry determines whether the login will be accepted or refused\&.
.PP
Each line of the login access control table has three fields separated by a ":" character (colon):
.PP

\fIpermission\fR:\fIusers/groups\fR:\fIorigins\fR
.PP
The first field, the
\fIpermission\fR
field, can be either a "\fI+\fR" character (plus) for access granted or a "\fI\-\fR" character (minus) for access denied\&.
.PP
The second field, the
\fIusers\fR/\fIgroup\fR
field, should be a list of one or more login names, group names, or
\fIALL\fR
(which always matches)\&. To differentiate user entries from group entries, group entries should be written with brackets, e\&.g\&.
\fI(group)\fR\&.
.PP
The third field, the
\fIorigins\fR
field, should be a list of one or more tty names (for non\-networked logins), host names, domain names (begin with "\&."), host addresses, internet network numbers (end with "\&."), internet network addresses with network mask (where network mask can be a decimal number or an internet address also),
\fIALL\fR
(which always matches) or
\fILOCAL\fR\&.
\fILOCAL\fR
keyword matches if and only if the
\fIPAM_RHOST\fR
is not set and <origin> field is thus set from
\fIPAM_TTY\fR
or
\fIPAM_SERVICE\fR"\&. If supported by the system you can use
\fI@netgroupname\fR
in host or user patterns\&. The
\fI@@netgroupname\fR
syntax is supported in the user pattern only and it makes the local system hostname to be passed to the netgroup match call in addition to the user name\&. This might not work correctly on some libc implementations causing the match to always fail\&.
.PP
The
\fIEXCEPT\fR
operator makes it possible to write very compact rules\&.
.PP
If the
\fBnodefgroup\fR
is not set, the group file is searched when a name does not match that of the logged\-in user\&. Only groups are matched in which users are explicitly listed\&. However the PAM module does not look at the primary group id of a user\&.
.PP
The "\fI#\fR" character at start of line (no space at front) can be used to mark this line as a comment line\&.
.SH "EXAMPLES"
.PP
These are some example lines which might be specified in
\FC/etc/security/access\&.conf\F[]\&.
.PP
User
\fIroot\fR
should be allowed to get access via
\fIcron\fR, X11 terminal
\fI:0\fR,
\fItty1\fR, \&.\&.\&.,
\fItty5\fR,
\fItty6\fR\&.
.PP
+ : root : crond :0 tty1 tty2 tty3 tty4 tty5 tty6
.PP
User
\fIroot\fR
should be allowed to get access from hosts which own the IPv4 addresses\&. This does not mean that the connection have to be a IPv4 one, a IPv6 connection from a host with one of this IPv4 addresses does work, too\&.
.PP
+ : root : 192\&.168\&.200\&.1 192\&.168\&.200\&.4 192\&.168\&.200\&.9
.PP
+ : root : 127\&.0\&.0\&.1
.PP
User
\fIroot\fR
should get access from network
\FC192\&.168\&.201\&.\F[]
where the term will be evaluated by string matching\&. But it might be better to use network/netmask instead\&. The same meaning of
\FC192\&.168\&.201\&.\F[]
is
\fI192\&.168\&.201\&.0/24\fR
or
\fI192\&.168\&.201\&.0/255\&.255\&.255\&.0\fR\&.
.PP
+ : root : 192\&.168\&.201\&.
.PP
User
\fIroot\fR
should be able to have access from hosts
\fIfoo1\&.bar\&.org\fR
and
\fIfoo2\&.bar\&.org\fR
(uses string matching also)\&.
.PP
+ : root : foo1\&.bar\&.org foo2\&.bar\&.org
.PP
User
\fIroot\fR
should be able to have access from domain
\fIfoo\&.bar\&.org\fR
(uses string matching also)\&.
.PP
+ : root : \&.foo\&.bar\&.org
.PP
User
\fIroot\fR
should be denied to get access from all other sources\&.
.PP
\- : root : ALL
.PP
User
\fIfoo\fR
and members of netgroup
\fIadmins\fR
should be allowed to get access from all sources\&. This will only work if netgroup service is available\&.
.PP
+ : @admins foo : ALL
.PP
User
\fIjohn\fR
and
\fIfoo\fR
should get access from IPv6 host address\&.
.PP
+ : john foo : 2001:db8:0:101::1
.PP
User
\fIjohn\fR
should get access from IPv6 net/mask\&.
.PP
+ : john : 2001:db8:0:101::/64
.PP
Disallow console logins to all but the shutdown, sync and all other accounts, which are a member of the wheel group\&.
.PP
\-:ALL EXCEPT (wheel) shutdown sync:LOCAL
.PP
All other users should be denied to get access from all sources\&.
.PP
\- : ALL : ALL
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.PP

\fBpam_access\fR(8),
\fBpam.d\fR(5),
\fBpam\fR(8)
.SH "AUTHORS"
.PP
Original
\fBlogin.access\fR(5)
manual was provided by Guido van Rooij which was renamed to
\fBaccess.conf\fR(5)
to reflect relation to default config file\&.
.PP
Network address / netmask description and example text was introduced by Mike Becher <mike\&.becher@lrz\-muenchen\&.de>\&.