January 24, 2002 PAM_LOGIN_ACCESS 8

### NAME

pam_login_access - login.access PAM module

### SYNOPSIS

[service-name] module-type control-flag ```pam_login_access` [options]

### DESCRIPTION

The login.access service module for PAM provides functionality for only one PAM category: account management. In terms of the module-type parameter, this is the `````account`'' feature.

#### Login.access Account Management Module

The ```login.access` account management component (pam_sm_acct_mgmt(``)), returns success if and only the user is allowed to log in on the specified tty (in the case of a local login) or from the specified remote host (in the case of a remote login), according to the restrictions listed in ```/etc/login.access`.

### SEE ALSO

login.access(5), pam.conf(5), pam(8)

### AUTHORS

The login.access(5) access control scheme was designed and implemented by Wietse Venema
.

The pam_login_access 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.