Administering
PAM_AUTHZ Login Authorization Enhancement
PAM_AUTHZ Login Authorization
Enhancement
The PAM_AUTHZ service module provides functionality that allows the administrator to control who can login to the system based on netgroup information found in the /etc/passwd and /etc/netgroup files.
PAM_AUTHZ has been created to provide access control similar to the netgroup filtering feature that is performed by NIS.
Starting
Policy And Access Rules
Access rules are the basic elements of access control. Administrators create access rules that restrict or permit a user’s access permission. A policy is the collection of these different sets of access rules in a given order. This consolidated list of rules defines the overall access strategy of a local client machine. PAM_AUTHZ enables administrators to create an access policy by defining different types of access rules and to save the policy in a file.
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