1.\" Copyright (c) 2001 Mark R V Murray 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 13.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 14.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 15.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 16.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 17.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 18.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 19.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 20.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 21.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 22.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 23.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 24.\" 25.\" $FreeBSD$ 26.\" 27.Dd July 8, 2001 28.Dt PAM_ROOTOK 8 29.Os 30.Sh NAME 31.Nm pam_rootok 32.Nd RootOK PAM module 33.Sh SYNOPSIS 34.Op Ar service-name 35.Ar module-type 36.Ar control-flag 37.Pa pam_rootok 38.Op Ar options 39.Sh DESCRIPTION 40The RootOK authentication service module for PAM, 41.Nm 42provides functionality for only one PAM category: 43authentication. 44In terms of the 45.Ar module-type 46parameter, this is the 47.Dq Li auth 48feature. 49It also provides a null function for session management. 50.Ss RootOK Authentication Module 51The RootOK authentication component 52.Pq Fn pam_sm_authenticate , 53always returns success for the superuser; 54i.e., 55if 56.Xr getuid 2 57returns 0. 58.Pp 59The following options may be passed to the authentication module: 60.Bl -tag -width ".Cm no_warn" 61.It Cm debug 62.Xr syslog 3 63debugging information at 64.Dv LOG_DEBUG 65level. 66.It Cm no_warn 67suppress warning messages to the user. 68These messages include 69reasons why the user's 70authentication attempt was declined. 71.El 72.Sh SEE ALSO 73.Xr getuid 2 , 74.Xr pam.conf 5 , 75.Xr pam 8 76