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SYSTEM-AUTH(5)		       Linux-PAM Manual			SYSTEM-AUTH(5)

NAME
       system-auth - Common configuration file for PAMified services

SYNOPSIS
       /etc/pam.d/system-auth /etc/pam.d/password-auth /etc/pam.d/fingerprint-
       auth /etc/pam.d/smartcard-auth

DESCRIPTION
       The purpose of these configuration files are to provide a common inter‐
       face  for  all  applications  and  service daemons calling into the PAM
       library.

       The system-auth configuration file is included from nearly all individ‐
       ual service configuration files with the help of the include directive.

       The  password-auth  fingerprint-auth smartcard-auth configuration files
       are for applications which handle authentication from  different	 types
       of  devices via simultaneously running individual conversations instead
       of one aggregate conversation.

NOTES
       There should be no sufficient modules in the session  part  of  system-
       auth  file  because  individual	services may add session modules after
       include of the system-auth file. Execution of these  modules  would  be
       skipped if there were sufficient modules in system-auth file.

       Conversely  there  should not be any modules after include directive in
       the individual service files in authaccount and password sections  oth‐
       erwise they could be bypassed.

BUGS
       None known.

SEE ALSO
       pam(8), config-util(5)

       The  three Linux-PAM Guides, for system administrators, module develop‐
       ers, and application developers.

Red Hat				  2009 Apr 10			SYSTEM-AUTH(5)

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