shield-purge(8)

shield-purge8

Manage hosts rules for the pam_shield package.

Usage

shield-purge [-hdnlf] [-c config file]

Overview

shield-purge deletes old entries from the database. A binary for the pam-shield module, shield_purge is not intended to be invoked manualy. It is a halper program for job in crontab.

shield-purge clears records from the database that are older than the time specified by retention in shield.conf(5).

This program is part of the PAM-shield package. PAM-shield comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. See the GNU General Public Licence for details.

Options

-h, --help

Display this information

-c, --conf=file

Specify config file (default: /etc/security/shield.conf)

-d, --debug

Verbose output for debugging purposes

-n, --dry-run

Do not perform any updates

-l, --list

List all database entries

-f, --force

Delete all entries, even if unexpired

Project location

https://github.com/jtniehof/pam_shield

Releases

8 releases since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 5.0–7
  2. 8–12

--force since Debian 8 (Jessie); -f since Debian 8 (Jessie).

Author

Walter de Jong <[email protected]>

From libpam-shield 0.9.6-1.3+b2 in Debian 12 (Bookworm). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.