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.\" Copyright (c) 2005 Thorsten Kukuk kukuk@suse.de
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.TH pam_echo 8 "September 2005" "pam_echo" "Reference Manual"
.SH NAME
pam_echo - PAM module for printing text messages
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.B pam_echo
PAM module is for printing text messages to inform user about
special things. Sequences starting with the
.B %
character are interpreted in the following way:
.TP
.B %H
The name of the remote host (PAM_RHOST).
.TP
.B %h
The name of the local host.
.TP
.B %s
The service name (PAM_SERVICE).
.TP
.B %t
The name of the controlling terminal (PAM_TTY).
.TP
.B %U
The remote user name (PAM_RUSER).
.TP
.B %u
The local user name (PAM_USER).
.PP
All other sequences beginning with
.B %
expands to the characters following the
.B %
character.
.SH OPTIONS
The following options may be passed to all types of management
groups:
.TP
.BR "file=" "message"
.B pam_echo
will print the content of the file
.B message
with the PAM conversion function as PAM_TEXT_INFO.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR pam.conf (8),
.BR pam.d (8),
.BR pam (8)
.SH AUTHOR
Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>