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Appendix J Linux-PAM 188
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Bad - this action indicates that the return code should be thought of as indicative of the module
failing. If this module is the first in the stack to fail, its status value will be used for that of the whole stack.
Die - equivalent to bad with the side effect of terminating the module stack and PAM
immediately returning to the application.
Ok - this tells PAM that the administrator thinks this return code should contribute directly to the
return code of the full stack of modules. In other words, if the former state of the stack would lead to a
return of PAM_SUCCESS, the module’s return code will override this value. Note, if the former state of
the stack holds some value that is an indicative of a module failure, this ‘ok’ value will not be used to
override that value.
Done - equivalent to ok with the side effect of terminating the module stack and PAM
immediately returning to the application.
Reset - clear all memory of the state of the module stack and start again with the next stacked
module.
Module-path
The path-name of the dynamically loadable object file, the pluggable module itself, If the first character of the
module path is ‘/’, it is assumed to be a complete path. If this is not the case, the given module path is appended
to the default module path: /lib/security.