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PAM_ISSUE(8) Linux-PAM Manual PAM_ISSUE(8) NAME pam_issue - PAM module to add issue file to user prompt SYNOPSIS pam_issue.so [noesc] [issue=issue-file-name] DESCRIPTION pam_issue is a PAM module to prepend an issue file to the username prompt. It also by default parses escape codes in the issue file similar to some common getty's (using \x format). Recognized escapes: \d current day \l name of this tty \m machine architecture (uname -m) \n machine's network node hostname (uname -n) \o domain name of this system \r release number of operating system (uname -r) \t current time \s operating system name (uname -s) \u number of users currently logged in \U same as \u except it is suffixed with "user" or "users" (eg. "1 user" or "10 users") \v operating system version and build date (uname -v) OPTIONS noesc Turns off escape code parsing. issue=issue-file-name The file to output if not using the default. MODULE SERVICES PROVIDED Only the auth service is supported. RETURN VALUES PAM_BUF_ERR Memory buffer error. PAM_IGNORE The prompt was already changed. PAM_SERVICE_ERR A service module error occured. PAM_SUCCESS The new prompt was set successfull. EXAMPLES Add the following line to /etc/pam.d/login to set the user specific issue at login: auth optional pam_issue.so issue=/etc/issue SEE ALSO pam.conf(5), pam.d(8), pam(8) AUTHOR pam_issue was written by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>. Linux-PAM Manual 06/17/2006 PAM_ISSUE(8)