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.\" Copyright 2000 Red Hat, Inc.
.TH pam_localuser 8 2000/7/21 "Red Hat" "System Administrator's Manual"

.SH NAME
pam_localuser \- require users to be listed in /etc/passwd

.SH SYNOPSIS
.B account sufficient /lib/security/pam_localuser.so \fIargs\fP
.br
.B account required /lib/security/pam_wheel.so group=devel

.SH DESCRIPTION
pam_localuser.so exists to help implement site-wide login policies, where
they typically include a subset of the network's users and a few accounts
that are local to a particular workstation.  Using pam_localuser.so and
pam_wheel.so or pam_listfile.so is an effective way to restrict access to
either local users and/or a subset of the network's users.

This could also be implemented using pam_listfile.so and a very short awk
script invoked by cron, but it's common enough to have been separated out.

.SH ARGUMENTS
.IP debug
turns on debugging
.IP file=\fBFILE\fP
uses a file other than \fB/etc/passwd\fP.

.SH FILES
/etc/passwd

.SH BUGS
Let's hope not, but if you find any, please report them via the "Bug Track"
link at http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/

.SH AUTHOR
Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com>