Module Name: pam_permit Author: Andrew G. Morgan, <morgan@parc.power.net> Maintainer: Linux-PAM maintainer. Management groups provided: account; authentication; password; session Cryptographically sensitive: Security rating: VERY LOW. Use with extreme caution. Clean code base: Clean. System dependencies: Network aware: Overview of module

This module is very dangerous. It should be used with extreme caution. Its action is always to permit access. It does nothing else. Account+Authentication+Password+Session components

Recognized arguments: Description: No matter what management group, the action of this module is to simply return In the case of authentication, the user's name will be acquired. Many applications become confused if this name is unknown. Examples/suggested usage: It is seldom a good idea to use this module. However, it does have some legitimate uses. For example, if the system-administrator wishes to turn off the account management on a workstation, and at the same time continue to allow logins, then she might use the following configuration file entry for login: # # add this line to your other login entries to disable account # management, but continue to permit users to log in... # login account required pam_permit.so