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.Dd July 8, 2001 26.Dt PAM_ROOTOK 8 27.Os 28.Sh NAME 29.Nm pam_rootok 30.Nd RootOK PAM module 31.Sh SYNOPSIS 32.Op Ar service-name 33.Ar module-type 34.Ar control-flag 35.Pa pam_rootok 36.Op Ar options 37.Sh DESCRIPTION 38The RootOK authentication service module for PAM, 39.Nm 40provides functionality for only one PAM category: 41authentication. 42In terms of the 43.Ar module-type 44parameter, this is the 45.Dq Li auth 46feature. 47It also provides a null function for session management. 48.Ss RootOK Authentication Module 49The RootOK authentication component 50.Pq Fn pam_sm_authenticate , 51always returns success for the superuser; 52i.e., 53if 54.Xr getuid 2 55returns 0. 56.Pp 57The following options may be passed to the authentication module: 58.Bl -tag -width ".Cm no_warn" 59.It Cm debug 60.Xr syslog 3 61debugging information at 62.Dv LOG_DEBUG 63level. 64.It Cm no_warn 65suppress warning messages to the user. 66These messages include 67reasons why the user's 68authentication attempt was declined. 69.El 70.Sh SEE ALSO 71.Xr getuid 2 , 72.Xr pam.conf 5 , 73.Xr pam 3 74