pam_time — PAM module for time control access ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DESCRIPTION The pam_time PAM module does not authenticate the user, but instead it restricts access to a system and or specific applications at various times of the day and on specific days or over various terminal lines. This module can be configured to deny access to (individual) users based on their name, the time of day, the day of week, the service they are applying for and their terminal from which they are making their request. By default rules for time/port access are taken from config file /etc/security/ time.conf. EXAMPLES These are some example lines which might be specified in /etc/security/ time.conf. All users except for root are denied access to console-login at all times: login ; tty* & !ttyp* ; !root ; !Al0000-2400 Games (configured to use PAM) are only to be accessed out of working hours. This rule does not apply to the user waster: games ; * ; !waster ; Wd0000-2400 | Wk1800-0800