'\" t .\" Title: pam_lastlog .\" Author: [see the "AUTHOR" section] .\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets v1.78.1 .\" Date: 09/19/2013 .\" Manual: Linux-PAM Manual .\" Source: Linux-PAM Manual .\" Language: English .\" .TH "PAM_LASTLOG" "8" "09/19/2013" "Linux-PAM Manual" "Linux\-PAM Manual" .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- .\" * Define some portability stuff .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- .\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .\" http://bugs.debian.org/507673 .\" http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2009-02/msg00013.html .\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .ie \n(.g .ds Aq \(aq .el .ds Aq ' .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- .\" * set default formatting .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- .\" disable hyphenation .nh .\" disable justification (adjust text to left margin only) .ad l .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- .\" * MAIN CONTENT STARTS HERE * .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- .SH "NAME" pam_lastlog \- PAM module to display date of last login and perform inactive account lock out .SH "SYNOPSIS" .HP \w'\fBpam_lastlog\&.so\fR\ 'u \fBpam_lastlog\&.so\fR [debug] [silent] [never] [nodate] [nohost] [noterm] [nowtmp] [noupdate] [showfailed] [inactive=] .SH "DESCRIPTION" .PP pam_lastlog is a PAM module to display a line of information about the last login of the user\&. In addition, the module maintains the /var/log/lastlog file\&. .PP Some applications may perform this function themselves\&. In such cases, this module is not necessary\&. .PP If the module is called in the auth or account phase, the accounts that were not used recently enough will be disallowed to log in\&. The check is not performed for the root account so the root is never locked out\&. .SH "OPTIONS" .PP \fBdebug\fR .RS 4 Print debug information\&. .RE .PP \fBsilent\fR .RS 4 Don\*(Aqt inform the user about any previous login, just update the /var/log/lastlog file\&. .RE .PP \fBnever\fR .RS 4 If the /var/log/lastlog file does not contain any old entries for the user, indicate that the user has never previously logged in with a welcome message\&. .RE .PP \fBnodate\fR .RS 4 Don\*(Aqt display the date of the last login\&. .RE .PP \fBnoterm\fR .RS 4 Don\*(Aqt display the terminal name on which the last login was attempted\&. .RE .PP \fBnohost\fR .RS 4 Don\*(Aqt indicate from which host the last login was attempted\&. .RE .PP \fBnowtmp\fR .RS 4 Don\*(Aqt update the wtmp entry\&. .RE .PP \fBnoupdate\fR .RS 4 Don\*(Aqt update any file\&. .RE .PP \fBshowfailed\fR .RS 4 Display number of failed login attempts and the date of the last failed attempt from btmp\&. The date is not displayed when \fBnodate\fR is specified\&. .RE .PP \fBinactive=\fR .RS 4 This option is specific for the auth or account phase\&. It specifies the number of days after the last login of the user when the user will be locked out by the module\&. The default value is 90\&. .RE .SH "MODULE TYPES PROVIDED" .PP The \fBauth\fR and \fBaccount\fR module type allows to lock out users which did not login recently enough\&. The \fBsession\fR module type is provided for displaying the information about the last login and/or updating the lastlog and wtmp files\&. .SH "RETURN VALUES" .PP .PP PAM_SUCCESS .RS 4 Everything was successful\&. .RE .PP PAM_SERVICE_ERR .RS 4 Internal service module error\&. .RE .PP PAM_USER_UNKNOWN .RS 4 User not known\&. .RE .PP PAM_AUTH_ERR .RS 4 User locked out in the auth or account phase due to inactivity\&. .RE .PP PAM_IGNORE .RS 4 There was an error during reading the lastlog file in the auth or account phase and thus inactivity of the user cannot be determined\&. .RE .SH "EXAMPLES" .PP Add the following line to /etc/pam\&.d/login to display the last login time of an user: .sp .if n \{\ .RS 4 .\} .nf session required pam_lastlog\&.so nowtmp .fi .if n \{\ .RE .\} .PP To reject the user if he did not login during the previous 50 days the following line can be used: .sp .if n \{\ .RS 4 .\} .nf auth required pam_lastlog\&.so inactive=50 .fi .if n \{\ .RE .\} .SH "FILES" .PP /var/log/lastlog .RS 4 Lastlog logging file .RE .SH "SEE ALSO" .PP \fBpam.conf\fR(5), \fBpam.d\fR(5), \fBpam\fR(7) .SH "AUTHOR" .PP pam_lastlog was written by Andrew G\&. Morgan \&. .PP Inactive account lock out added by Tomáš Mráz \&.