The access module Synopsis

Module Name: pam_access Author[s]: Alexei Nogin <alexei@nogin.dnttm.ru> Maintainer: Author Management groups provided: account Cryptographically sensitive: Security rating: Clean code base: System dependencies: Requires a configuration file /etc/security/access.conf Network aware: Through Overview of module

Provides logdaemon style login access control. Account component

Recognized arguments: Description: This module provides logdaemon style login access control based on login names and on host (or domain) names, internet addresses (or network numbers), or on terminal line names in case of non-networked logins. Diagnostics are reported through Examples/suggested usage: Use of module is recommended, for example, on administrative machines such as /etc/pam.d style configurations where your modules live in /lib/security, start by adding the following line to /etc/pam.d/login, /etc/pam.d/rlogin, /etc/pam.d/rsh and /etc/pam.d/ftp: account required /lib/security/pam_access.so Note that use of this module is not effective unless your system ignores .rhosts files. See the the pam_rhosts_auth documentation. A sample access.conf configuration file is included with the distribution.