Installed Documentation

PAM-related man pages - Several man pages exist for the various applications and configuration files involved with PAM. The following is a list of some of the more important man pages.

Configuration Files

pam - Good introductory information on PAM, including the structure and purpose of the PAM configuration files.

Note that this man page discusses both /etc/pam.conf and individual configuration files in the /etc/pam.d/ directory. By default, Community Enterprise Linux uses the individual configuration files in the /etc/pam.d/ directory, ignoring /etc/pam.conf even if it exists.

pam_console - Describes the purpose of the pam_console.so module. It also describes the appropriate syntax for an entry within a PAM configuration file.
console.apps - Describes the format and options available in the /etc/security/console.apps configuration file, which defines which applications are accessible by the console user assigned by PAM.
console.perms - Describes the format and options available in the /etc/security/console.perms configuration file, which specifies the console user permissions assigned by PAM.
pam_timestamp - Describes the pam_timestamp.so module.

/usr/share/doc/pam-<version-number> - Contains a System Administrators' Guide, a Module Writers' Manual, and the Application Developers' Manual, as well as a copy of the PAM standard, DCE-RFC 86.0, where <version-number> is the version number of PAM.
/usr/share/doc/pam-<version-number>/txts/README.pam_timestamp - Contains information about the pam_timestamp.so PAM module, where <version-number> is the version number of PAM.