PAM_LASTLOG(8)

NAME
pam_lastlog - login accounting PAM module

SYNOPSIS
[service-name] module-type control-flag pam_lastlog [options]

DESCRIPTION
The login accounting service module for PAM provides functionality for only one PAM category: session management. In terms of the module-type parameter, this is the “session” feature.

  Login Accounting Session Management Module
The login accounting session management component provides functions to initiate (pam_sm_open_session()) and terminate (pam_sm_close_session()) sessions. The pam_sm_open_session() function records the session in the utmp(5), utmpx(5), wtmp(5), wtmpx(5), lastlog(5), and lastlogx(5) databases. The pam_sm_close_session() function does nothing.

The following options may be passed to the authentication module:

debug
    syslog(3) debugging information at LOG_DEBUG level.

no_nested
    Don't update records or print messages if the user is “nested”, i.e. logged in on the same tty on top of another user.

no_warn
    suppress warning messages to the user.

no_fail
    Ignore I/O failures.

SEE ALSO
last(1), w(1), login(3), loginx(3), logout(3), logoutx(3), pam.conf(5), utmp(5), utmpx(5), lastlogin(8), pam(8)

AUTHORS
The pam_lastlog module and this manual page were developed for the FreeBSD Project by ThinkSec AS and NAI Labs, the Security Research Division of Network Associates, Inc. under DARPA/SPAWAR contract N66001-01-C-8035 (“CBOSS”), as part of the DARPA CHATS research program.