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1.\" $NetBSD: pam_lastlog.8,v 1.7 2005/03/03 02:11:49 christos Exp $
2.\" Copyright (c) 2001 Mark R V Murray
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38.Dd March 2, 2005
39.Dt PAM_LASTLOG 8
40.Os
41.Sh NAME
42.Nm pam_lastlog
43.Nd login accounting PAM module
44.Sh SYNOPSIS
45.Op Ar service-name
46.Ar module-type
47.Ar control-flag
48.Pa pam_lastlog
49.Op Ar options
50.Sh DESCRIPTION
51The login accounting service module for PAM
52provides functionality for only one PAM category:
53session management.
54In terms of the
55.Ar module-type
56parameter, this is the
57.Dq Li session
58feature.
59.Ss Login Accounting Session Management Module
60The login accounting session management component provides functions
61to initiate
62.Pq Fn pam_sm_open_session
63and terminate
64.Pq Fn pam_sm_close_session
65sessions.
66The
67.Fn pam_sm_open_session
68function records the session in the
69.Xr utmp 5 ,
70.Xr utmpx 5 ,
71.Xr wtmp 5 ,
72.Xr wtmpx 5 ,
73.Xr lastlog 5 ,
74and
75.Xr lastlogx 5
76databases.
77The
78.Fn pam_sm_close_session
79function does nothing.
80.Pp
81The following options may be passed to the authentication module:
82.Bl -tag -width ".Cm no_nested"
83.It Cm debug
84.Xr syslog 3
85debugging information at
86.Dv LOG_DEBUG
87level.
88.It Cm no_nested
89Don't update records or print messages if the user is
90.Dq nested ,
91i.e. logged in on the same tty on top of another user.
92.It Cm no_warn
93suppress warning messages to the user.
94.It Cm no_fail
95Ignore I/O failures.
96.El
97.Sh SEE ALSO
98.Xr last 1 ,
99.Xr w 1 ,
100.Xr login 3 ,
101.Xr loginx 3 ,
102.Xr logout 3 ,
103.Xr logoutx 3 ,
104.Xr pam.conf 5 ,
105.Xr utmp 5 ,
106.Xr utmpx 5 ,
107.Xr lastlogin 8 ,
108.Xr pam 8
109.Sh AUTHORS
110The
111.Nm
112module and this manual page were developed for the
113.Fx
114Project by
115ThinkSec AS and NAI Labs, the Security Research Division of Network
116Associates, Inc.\& under DARPA/SPAWAR contract N66001-01-C-8035
117.Pq Dq CBOSS ,
118as part of the DARPA CHATS research program.
119