Attachment 3762 Details for Bug 10181 – Short description of /etc/security/console.apps/$program

[patch] Short description of /etc/security/console.apps/$program

consolehelper-man-console.apps-syntax.patch (text/plain), 974 bytes, created by avm on 2009-08-21 15:41:26 MSD

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Created: 2009-08-21 15:41:26 MSD

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>--- -	2009-08-21 15:37:14 +0400
>+++ consolehelper.8	2009-08-21 15:35:33 +0400
>@@ -43,6 +43,8 @@
> .I /usr/lib/consolehelper/priv/auth
> privileged helper program to do the real work.)
> 
>+.SH MAKING YOUR PROGRAM MANAGED
>+
> .B consolehelper
> requires that a PAM configuration for every managed program
> exist.  So to make /sbin/\fIfoo\fP or /usr/sbin/\fIfoo\fP managed, you
>@@ -51,6 +53,18 @@
> and create the file /etc/pam.d/\fIfoo\fP, normally using the
> .IR pam_console (8)
> PAM module.
>+
>+For obscure reasons, the file /etc/security/console.apps/\fIfoo\fP
>+is also required to exist, with the following contents:
>+
>+   USER=\fIroot\fP
>+   PROGRAM=/sbin/\fIfoo\fP
>+   SESSION=true
>+
>+USER is the user to run the program as (normally \fBroot\fP).
>+PROGRAM is the full path to the program. SESSION is always \fItrue\fP;
>+leave it that way.
>+
> .SH OPTIONS
> This program has no command line options of its own; it passes all
> command line options on to the program it is calling.

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