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  <refmeta>
    <refentrytitle>pam_debug</refentrytitle>
    <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
    <refmiscinfo class="source">Linux-PAM</refmiscinfo>
    <refmiscinfo class="manual">Linux-PAM Manual</refmiscinfo>
  </refmeta>

  <refnamediv xml:id="pam_debug-name">
    <refname>pam_debug</refname>
    <refpurpose>PAM module to debug the PAM stack</refpurpose>
  </refnamediv>

  <refsynopsisdiv>
    <cmdsynopsis xml:id="pam_debug-cmdsynopsis" sepchar=" ">
      <command>pam_debug.so</command>
      <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat">
	auth=<replaceable>value</replaceable>
      </arg>
      <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat">
	cred=<replaceable>value</replaceable>
      </arg>
      <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat">
	acct=<replaceable>value</replaceable>
      </arg>
      <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat">
	prechauthtok=<replaceable>value</replaceable>
      </arg>
      <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat">
	chauthtok=<replaceable>value</replaceable>
      </arg>
      <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat">
	auth=<replaceable>value</replaceable>
      </arg>
      <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat">
	open_session=<replaceable>value</replaceable>
      </arg>
      <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat">
	close_session=<replaceable>value</replaceable>
      </arg>
    </cmdsynopsis>
  </refsynopsisdiv>

  <refsect1 xml:id="pam_debug-description">
    <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
    <para>
      The pam_debug PAM module is intended as a debugging aide for
      determining how the PAM stack is operating. This module returns
      what its module arguments tell it to return.
    </para>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1 xml:id="pam_debug-options">
    <title>OPTIONS</title>
    <variablelist>
      <varlistentry>
        <term>
          auth=value
        </term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            The
	    <citerefentry>
              <refentrytitle>pam_sm_authenticate</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum>
            </citerefentry> function will return
            <replaceable>value</replaceable>.
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term>
          cred=value
        </term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            The
	    <citerefentry>
              <refentrytitle>pam_sm_setcred</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum>
            </citerefentry> function will return
            <replaceable>value</replaceable>.
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term>
          acct=value
        </term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            The
	    <citerefentry>
              <refentrytitle>pam_sm_acct_mgmt</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum>
            </citerefentry> function will return
            <replaceable>value</replaceable>.
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term>
          prechauthtok=value
        </term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            The
	    <citerefentry>
              <refentrytitle>pam_sm_chauthtok</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum>
            </citerefentry> function will return
            <replaceable>value</replaceable> if the
            <emphasis>PAM_PRELIM_CHECK</emphasis> flag is set.
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term>
          chauthtok=value
        </term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            The
	    <citerefentry>
              <refentrytitle>pam_sm_chauthtok</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum>
            </citerefentry> function will return
            <replaceable>value</replaceable> if the
            <emphasis>PAM_PRELIM_CHECK</emphasis> flag is
            <emphasis remap="B">not</emphasis> set.
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term>
          open_session=value
        </term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            The
	    <citerefentry>
              <refentrytitle>pam_sm_open_session</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum>
            </citerefentry> function will return
            <replaceable>value</replaceable>.
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term>
          close_session=value
        </term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            The
	    <citerefentry>
              <refentrytitle>pam_sm_close_session</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum>
            </citerefentry> function will return
            <replaceable>value</replaceable>.
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>
    <para>
      Where <replaceable>value</replaceable> can be one of: success,
      open_err, symbol_err, service_err, system_err, buf_err, perm_denied,
      auth_err, cred_insufficient, authinfo_unavail, user_unknown,
      maxtries, new_authtok_reqd, acct_expired, session_err, cred_unavail,
      cred_expired, cred_err, no_module_data, conv_err, authtok_err,
      authtok_recover_err, authtok_lock_busy, authtok_disable_aging,
      try_again, ignore, abort, authtok_expired, module_unknown,
      bad_item, conv_again, incomplete.
    </para>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1 xml:id="pam_debug-types">
    <title>MODULE TYPES PROVIDED</title>
    <para>
      All module types (<option>auth</option>, <option>account</option>,
      <option>password</option> and <option>session</option>) are provided.
    </para>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1 xml:id="pam_debug-return_values">
    <title>RETURN VALUES</title>
    <variablelist>
      <varlistentry>
        <term>PAM_SUCCESS</term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Default return code if no other value was specified,
            else specified return value.
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1 xml:id="pam_debug-examples">
    <title>EXAMPLES</title>
    <programlisting>
auth    requisite       pam_permit.so
auth    [success=2 default=ok]  pam_debug.so auth=perm_denied cred=success
auth    [default=reset]         pam_debug.so auth=success cred=perm_denied
auth    [success=done default=die] pam_debug.so
auth    optional        pam_debug.so auth=perm_denied cred=perm_denied
auth    sufficient      pam_debug.so auth=success cred=success
    </programlisting>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1 xml:id="pam_debug-see_also">
    <title>SEE ALSO</title>
    <para>
      <citerefentry>
	<refentrytitle>pam.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
      </citerefentry>,
      <citerefentry>
	<refentrytitle>pam.d</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
      </citerefentry>,
      <citerefentry>
	<refentrytitle>pam</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
      </citerefentry>
    </para>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1 xml:id="pam_debug-author">
    <title>AUTHOR</title>
      <para>
        pam_debug was written by Andrew G. Morgan &lt;morgan@kernel.org&gt;.
      </para>
  </refsect1>

</refentry>