pam_group
—
Group PAM module
[service-name] module-type
control-flag pam_group
[arguments]
The group service module for PAM accepts or rejects users based on their
membership in a particular file group.
The following options may be passed to the
pam_group
module:
deny
- Reverse the meaning of the test, i.e., reject the applicant if and only if
he or she is a member of the specified group. This can be useful to
exclude certain groups of users from certain services.
fail_safe
- If the specified group does not exist, or has no members, act as if it
does exist and the applicant is a member.
group
=groupname
- Specify the name of the group to check. The default is
“
wheel
”.
root_only
- Skip this module entirely if the target account is not the superuser
account.
authenticate
- The user is asked to authenticate using his own password.
The pam_group
module and this manual page were developed
for the FreeBSD Project by ThinkSec AS and NAI Labs,
the Security Research Division of Network Associates, Inc. under DARPA/SPAWAR
contract N66001-01-C-8035 (“CBOSS”), as part of the DARPA CHATS
research program.