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pam_issue (8) Linux Manual Page

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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 ormat).

Recognized escapes:

\d

current day

\l

name of this tty

\m

machine architecture (uname -m)


machine’s network node hostname (uname -n)

\o

domain name of this system


release number of operating system (uname -r)

current time

\s

operating system name (uname -s)

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