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<sect1>The securetty module

<sect2>Synopsis

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<tag><bf>Module Name:</bf></tag>
<tt/pam_securetty/

<tag><bf>Author[s]:</bf></tag>
Elliot Lee &lt;sopwith@cuc.edu&gt;

<tag><bf>Maintainer:</bf></tag>
Red Hat Software:<newline>
<em/currently/ Michael K. Johnson &lt;johnsonm@redhat.com&gt;<newline>
(if unavailable, contact Elliot Lee &lt;sopwith@cuc.edu&gt;).

<tag><bf>Management groups provided:</bf></tag>
authentication

<tag><bf>Cryptographically sensitive:</bf></tag>

<tag><bf>Security rating:</bf></tag>

<tag><bf>Clean code base:</bf></tag>

<tag><bf>System dependencies:</bf></tag>
<tt>/etc/securetty</tt> file

<tag><bf>Network aware:</bf></tag>

Requires the application to fill in the <tt>PAM_TTY</tt> item
correctly in order to act meaningfully.

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<sect2>Overview of module

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Provides standard Unix securetty checking.

<sect2>Authentication component

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<tag><bf>Recognized arguments:</bf></tag>

<tag><bf>Description:</bf></tag>

Provides standard Unix securetty checking, which causes authentication
for root to fail unless <tt>PAM_TTY</tt> is set to a string listed in
the <tt>/etc/securetty</tt> file.  For all other users, it succeeds.

<tag><bf>Examples/suggested usage:</bf></tag>

For canonical usage, should be listed as a <tt>required</tt>
authentication method before any <tt>sufficient</tt> authentication
methods.

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