NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | ERRORS | ATTRIBUTES | SEE ALSO | NOTES
pam_unix_account.so.1
pam_unix_account provides functionality to the PAM account management stack. The function pam(3PAM) function retrieves password aging information from the repositories specified in nsswitch.conf(4), and verifies that the user's account and password have not expired.
The following options can be passed to the module:
syslog(3C) debugging information at the LOG_DEBUG level
Turn off warning messages
If the account authority for the user, as specified by PAM_USER, is a server, do not apply the Unix policy from the passwd entry in the name service switch.
The following values are returned:
Password expired and no longer usable
Memory buffer error
Ignore module, not participating in result
Obtain new authentication token from the user
Error in underlying service module
Successfully obtains authentication token
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
ATTRIBUTE TYPE |
ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
---|---|
Interface Stability |
Evolving |
MT Level |
MT-Safe with exceptions |
pam(3PAM), pam_authenticate(3PAM), syslog(3C), libpam(3LIB), pam.conf(4), nsswitch.conf(4), attributes(5), pam_authtok_check(5), pam_authtok_get(5), pam_authtok_store(5), pam_dhkeys(5), pam_passwd_auth(5), pam_unix(5), pam_unix_auth(5), pam_unix_session(5)
The interfaces in libpam(3LIB) are MT-Safe only if each thread within the multi-threaded application uses its own PAM handle.
The pam_unix(5) module might not be supported in a future release. Similar functionality is provided by pam_authtok_check(5), pam_authtok_get(5), pam_authtok_store(5), pam_dhkeys(5), pam_passwd_auth(5), pam_unix_account(5), pam_unix_auth(5), and pam_unix_session(5).
NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | ERRORS | ATTRIBUTES | SEE ALSO | NOTES