February 6, 2003 PAM_ECHO 8

### NAME

pam_echo - Echo PAM module

### SYNOPSIS

[service-name] module-type control-flag ```pam_echo` [arguments]

### DESCRIPTION

The echo service module for PAM displays its arguments to the user, separated by spaces, using the current conversation function.

If the % character occurs anywhere in the arguments to , it is assumed to introduce one of the following escape sequences:

%H
  The name of the host on which the client runs (```PAM_RHOST`).

%s
  The current service name (```PAM_SERVICE`).

%t
  The name of the controlling tty (```PAM_TTY`).

%U
  The applicant's user name (```PAM_RUSER`).

%u
  The target account's user name (```PAM_USER`).

Any other two-character sequence beginning with % expands to the character following the % character.

### SEE ALSO

pam.conf(5), pam(8)

### AUTHORS

The pam_echo 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.