pam_exec — PAM module which calls an external command ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DESCRIPTION pam_exec is a PAM module that can be used to run an external command. OPTIONS debug Print debug information. log=file The output of the command is appended to file seteuid 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 .