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.