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<?xml version="1.0" encoding='UTF-8'?>
<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN"
	"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd">

<refentry id="pam_issue">

  <refmeta>
    <refentrytitle>pam_issue</refentrytitle>
    <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
    <refmiscinfo class="sectdesc">Linux-PAM Manual</refmiscinfo>
  </refmeta>

  <refnamediv id="pam_issue-name">
    <refname>pam_issue</refname>
    <refpurpose>PAM module to add issue file to user prompt</refpurpose>
  </refnamediv>

  <refsynopsisdiv>
    <cmdsynopsis id="pam_issue-cmdsynopsis">
      <command>pam_issue.so</command>
      <arg choice="opt">
        noesc
      </arg>
      <arg choice="opt">
        issue=<replaceable>issue-file-name</replaceable>
      </arg>
    </cmdsynopsis>
  </refsynopsisdiv>

  <refsect1 id="pam_issue-description">

    <title>DESCRIPTION</title>

    <para>
      pam_issue is a PAM module to prepend an issue file to the username
      prompt. It also by default parses escape codes in the issue file
      similar to some common getty's (using &bsol;x format).
    </para>
    <para>
      Recognized escapes:
    </para>
    <variablelist>
      <varlistentry>
        <term><emphasis remap='B'>&bsol;d</emphasis></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>current day</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term><emphasis remap='B'>&bsol;l</emphasis></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>name of this tty</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term><emphasis remap='B'>&bsol;m</emphasis></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>machine architecture (uname -m)</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term><emphasis remap='B'>&bsol;n</emphasis></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>machine's network node hostname (uname -n)</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term><emphasis remap='B'>&bsol;o</emphasis></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>domain name of this system</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term><emphasis remap='B'>&bsol;r</emphasis></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>release number of operating system (uname -r)</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term><emphasis remap='B'>&bsol;t</emphasis></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>current time</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term><emphasis remap='B'>&bsol;s</emphasis></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>operating system name (uname -s)</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term><emphasis remap='B'>&bsol;u</emphasis></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>number of users currently logged in</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term><emphasis remap='B'>&bsol;U</emphasis></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            same as &bsol;u except it is suffixed with "user" or
            "users" (eg. "1 user" or "10 users")
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term><emphasis remap='B'>&bsol;v</emphasis></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>operating system version and build date (uname -v)</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>

  </refsect1>

  <refsect1 id="pam_issue-options">

    <title>OPTIONS</title>
    <para>
      <variablelist>

        <varlistentry>
          <term>
            <option>noesc</option>
          </term>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              Turns off escape code parsing.
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>

        <varlistentry>
          <term>
            <option>issue=<replaceable>issue-file-name</replaceable></option>
          </term>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              The file to output if not using the default.
            </para>
          </listitem>
	</varlistentry>

      </variablelist>

    </para>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1 id="pam_issue-types">
    <title>MODULE TYPES PROVIDED</title>
    <para>
      Only the <option>auth</option> module type is provided.
    </para>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1 id='pam_issue-return_values'>
    <title>RETURN VALUES</title>
    <para>
      <variablelist>

        <varlistentry>
          <term>PAM_BUF_ERR</term>
          <listitem>
             <para>
               Memory buffer error.
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>

        <varlistentry>
          <term>PAM_IGNORE</term>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              The prompt was already changed.
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>

        <varlistentry>
          <term>PAM_SERVICE_ERR</term>
          <listitem>
            <para>
	      A service module error occurred.
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>

        <varlistentry>
          <term>PAM_SUCCESS</term>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              The new prompt was set successfully.
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>

      </variablelist>
    </para>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1 id='pam_issue-examples'>
    <title>EXAMPLES</title>
    <para>
      Add the following line to <filename>/etc/pam.d/login</filename> to
      set the user specific issue at login:
      <programlisting>
        auth optional pam_issue.so issue=/etc/issue
      </programlisting>
    </para>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1 id='pam_issue-see_also'>
    <title>SEE ALSO</title>
    <para>
      <citerefentry>
	<refentrytitle>pam.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
      </citerefentry>,
      <citerefentry>
	<refentrytitle>pam.d</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
      </citerefentry>,
      <citerefentry>
	<refentrytitle>pam</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
      </citerefentry>
    </para>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1 id='pam_issue-author'>
    <title>AUTHOR</title>
      <para>
        pam_issue was written by Ben Collins &lt;bcollins@debian.org&gt;.
      </para>
  </refsect1>

</refentry>