pam_permit(8)

pam_permit8

Promiscuous pam module

Usage

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

Overview

The Promiscuous authentication service module for PAM, pam_permit 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 Promiscuous module will universally allow all requests. It is primarily of use during testing, and to silence “noisy” PAM-enabled applications.

The following options may be passed to the module:

debug

syslog(3) debugging information at LOG_DEBUG level.

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.