pam_deny(8)

pam_deny8

Deny pam module

Usage

[service-name] module-type control-flag pam_deny [options]

Overview

The Deny authentication service module for PAM, pam_deny provides functionality for all the PAM categories: authentication, account management, session management and password management. In terms of the module-type parameter, these are the “auth”, “account”, “session”, and “password” features.

The Deny module will universally deny all requests. It is primarily of use during testing, and to “null-out” unwanted functionality.

The following options may be passed to the module:

debug

syslog(3) debugging information at LOG_DEBUG level.

no_warn

suppress warning messages to the user. These messages include reasons why the user's authentication attempt was declined.

Releases

56 releases since FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE; the text changed 34 times.

  1. 5.0–6.3
  2. 6.4
  3. 7.0
  4. 7.1
  5. 7.2
  6. 7.3
  7. 7.4
  8. 8.0
  9. 8.1
  10. 8.2
  11. 8.3
  12. 8.4
  13. 9.0
  14. 9.1
  15. 9.2
  16. 9.3
  17. 10.0
  18. 10.1
  19. 10.2
  20. 10.3
  21. 10.4
  22. 11.0
  23. 11.1
  24. 11.2
  25. 11.3
  26. 11.4
  27. 12.0
  28. 12.1
  29. 12.2
  30. 12.3
  31. 12.4
  32. 13.0–13.2
  33. 13.3–13.5
  34. 14.0–14.2
  35. 14.3–16.0

From base 16.0-CURRENT-20261027-61c70dc16a79 in FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (2026-10-27). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.