PAM_FTPUSERS(8)

📦 version 15.1, in freebsd 14.5, freebsd 15.1

💅 PAM_FTPUSERS(8) — the pam_ftpusers manual, bestie edition ✨

okay so this is the manual page for pam_ftpusers — yep, the ftpusers PAM module, from the System Manager's Manual, and no cap it's a whole little icon 👑

✨ NAME ✨

pam_ftpusers — the ftpusers PAM module, periodt 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

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

like, that's the whole vibe check. that's the line. 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so the ftpusers service module for PAM — pam_ftpusers — provides functionality for only one PAM category: account management. one. single. category. it's giving focused. 🙈

in terms of the module-type parameter, this is the account feature. that's it, that's the whole job, and honestly? she ate. 🔥

🎀 Ftpusers Account Management Module 🎀

the ftpusers account management component — that's pam_sm_acct_mgmt() for the girlies keeping track — succeeds if and only if the user is listed in /etc/ftpusers. if and only if. she's strict like that, ngl. 💀

the following options may be passed to the authentication module:

  • debug — turns on syslog(3) debugging information at LOG_DEBUG level. basically she's gonna journal about it. for the devs. 🫶
  • no_warn — suppresses warning messages to the user. and bestie, these messages include the reasons why the user's authentication attempt was declined — so yeah, you're lowkey silencing the explanation of why it said no. your call, but know what you're doing. 😭
  • disallow — reverses the semantics, iconic of her honestly: pam_ftpusers will succeed if and only if the user is not listed in /etc/ftpusers. flipped like a pancake, fr fr. 🥞

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

go read those, they're the supporting cast and they're all main characters too 💖

👑 AUTHORS 👑

the pam_ftpusers module and this manual page were developed for the FreeBSD Project by ThinkSec AS and NAI Labs, the Security Research Division of Network Associates, Inc. under DARPA/SPAWAR contract N66001-01-C-8035 (“CBOSS”), as part of the DARPA CHATS research program. look at that contract number, that's a whole glow-up in a string of digits 🌈

okay and the little sign-off at the bottom? that's this page's source and date energy: it's the Debian version, dated April 17, 2002 — vintage, retro, still slaying after all these years 🧚‍♀️💜 bye bestie, go manage some accounts! 🍓

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