console.perms(5)                                  System Administrator's Manual                                 console.perms(5)



NAME
       console.perms - permissions control file for users at the system console

DESCRIPTION
       /etc/security/console.perms  and  .perms  files  in the /etc/security/console.perms.d directory determine the permissions
       that will be given to priviledged users of the console at login time, and the permissions to which  to  revert  when  the
       users log out.  They are read by the pam_console_apply helper executable.

       The format is:

       <class>=space-separated list of words

       login-regexp|<login-class> perm dev-glob|<dev-class> \
               revert-mode revert-owner[.revert-group]

       The revert-mode, revert-owner, and revert-group fields are optional, and default to 0600, root, and root, respectively.

       The  words  in a class definition are evaluated as globs if they refer to files, but as regular expressions if they apply
       to a console definition.  Do not mix them.

       Any line can be broken and continued on the next line by using a \ character as the last character on the line.

       The login-class class and the login-regexp word are evaluated as regular expressions.  The  dev-class  and  the  dev-glob
       word  are  evaluated as shell-style globs.  If a name given corresponds to a directory, and if it is a mount point listed
       in /etc/fstab, the device node associated with the filesystem mounted at that point will be substituted in its place.

       Classes are denoted by being contained in < angle bracket > characters; a lack of < angle brackets > indicates  that  the
       string is to be taken literally as a login-regexp or a dev-glob, depending on its input position.

SEE ALSO
       pam_console(8)
       pam_console_apply(8)
       console.apps(5)

AUTHOR
       Michael K. Johnson <johnsonmATredhat.com>



Red Hat Software                                            2005/5/2                                            console.perms(5)