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Manual Reference Pages  - PAM_ISSUE (8)

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pam_issue - PAM module to add issue file to user prompt

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pam_issue.so [noesc] [issue=issue-file-name]

pam_issue is a PAM module to prepend an issue file to the username prompt. It also by default parses escape codes in the issue file similar to some common getty’s (using \x format).

Recognized escapes:

\d	current day
\l	name of this tty
\m	machine architecture (uname -m)
\n	machine’s network node hostname (uname -n)
\o	domain name of this system
\r	release number of operating system (uname -r)
\t	current time
\s	operating system name (uname -s)
\u	number of users currently logged in
\U	same as \u except it is suffixed with "user" or "users" (eg. "1 user" or "10 users")
\v	operating system version and build date (uname -v)

noesc
	Turns off escape code parsing.
issue=issue-file-name
	The file to output if not using the default.

Only the auth service is supported.

PAM_BUF_ERR
	Memory buffer error.
PAM_IGNORE
	The prompt was already changed.
PAM_SERVICE_ERR
	A service module error occured.
PAM_SUCCESS
	The new prompt was set successfull.

Add the following line to /etc/pam.d/login to set the user specific issue at login:

        auth optional pam_issue.so issue=/etc/issue
     

pam.conf(5), pam.d(8), pam(8)

pam_issue was written by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>.

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