pam_canonicalize_user8
Get user name and canonicalize it
Usage
pam_canonicalize_user.so
Overview
This PAM module uses the name of the user obtained via pam_get_user(3) as a key to query the password database, and replaces PAM_USER with the pw_name value that has been returned.
Options
This module does not recognise any options.
Module types provided
Only the auth module type is provided.
Return values
PAM_IGNORE
The user name was set successfully.
PAM_USER_UNKNOWN
The user was not found.
PAM_SYSTEM_ERR
The application did not supply neither a user name nor a conversation method.
PAM_INCOMPLETE
The conversation method supplied by the application is waiting for an event.
PAM_CONV_ERR
The conversation method supplied by the application failed to obtain the user name.
PAM_ABORT
Error resuming an old conversation.
PAM_BUF_ERR
Memory buffer error.
Examples
Prepend the PAM auth stack with the following line to canonicalize the user name before the authentication:
auth required pam_canonicalize_user.so
Releases
2 releases since Debian 13 (Trixie); the text changed 1 time.