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Standards, Environments, and Macrospam_unix_account(5)


NAME

 pam_unix_account - PAM account management module for UNIX

SYNOPSIS

 
pam_unix_account.so.1

DESCRIPTION

 

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:

debug
syslog(3C) debugging information at the LOG_DEBUG level
nowarn
Turn off warning messages

RETURN VALUES

 

The following values are returned:

PAM_SUCCESS
Successfully obtains authentication token
PAM_NEW_AUTHTOK_REQD
Obtain new authentication token from the user
PAM_AUTHTOK_EXPIRED
Password expired and no longer usable
PAM_BUF_ERR
Memory buffer error
PAM_SERVICE_ERR
Error in underlying service module

ATTRIBUTES

 

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPEATTRIBUTE VALUE
Interface StabilityEvolving
MT LevelMT-Safe with exceptions

SEE ALSO

 

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)

NOTES

 

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).


SunOS 5.9Go To TopLast Changed 10 Dec 2001

 
      
      
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