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.Dd December 5, 2001
.Dt PAM_SELF 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm pam_self
.Nd Self PAM module
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Op Ar service-name
.Ar module-type
.Ar control-flag
.Pa pam_self
.Op Ar options
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The Self authentication service module for PAM,
.Nm
provides functionality for only one PAM category:
authentication.
In terms of the
.Ar module-type
parameter, this is the
.Dq Li auth
feature.
.Ss Self Authentication Module
The Self authentication component
.Pq Fn pam_sm_authenticate ,
returns success if and only if the target user's user ID is identical
with the current real user ID.
If the current real user ID is zero, authentication will fail,
unless the
.Cm allow_root
option was specified.
.Pp
The following options may be passed to the authentication module:
.Bl -tag -width ".Cm allow_root"
.It Cm debug
.Xr syslog 3
debugging information at
.Dv LOG_DEBUG
level.
.It Cm no_warn
suppress warning messages to the user.
These messages include reasons why the user's authentication attempt
was declined.
.It Cm allow_root
do not automatically fail if the current real user ID is 0.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr getuid 2 ,
.Xr pam 3 ,
.Xr pam.conf 5
.Sh AUTHORS
The
.Nm
module and this manual page were developed for the
.Fx
Project by
ThinkSec AS and NAI Labs, the Security Research Division of Network
Associates, Inc.\& under DARPA/SPAWAR contract N66001-01-C-8035
.Pq Dq CBOSS ,
as part of the DARPA CHATS research program.