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NAME
login.access - login access control table
SYNOPSIS
/etc/login.access
DESCRIPTION
The login.access file specifies (user, host) combinations and/or (user,
tty) combinations for which a login will be either accepted or refused.
When someone logs in, the login.access is scanned for the first entry
that matches the (user, host) combination, or, in case of non-networked
logins, the first entry that matches the (user, tty) combination. The
permissions field of that table entry determines whether the login will
be accepted or refused.
Each line of the login access control table has three fields separated by
a `:' character: permission:users:origins
The first field should be a "+" (access granted) or "-" (access denied)
character.
The second field should be a list of one or more login names, group
names, or ALL (always matches). Group names must be enclosed in
parentheses if the pam module specification for pam_login_access
specifies the nodefgroup option. Otherwise, group names will only match
if no usernames match.
The third field should be a list of one or more tty names (for non-
networked logins), host names, domain names (begin with "."), host
addresses, internet network numbers (end with "."), ALL (always matches)
or LOCAL (matches any string that does not contain a "." character). If
you run NIS you can use @netgroupname in host or user patterns.
The EXCEPT operator makes it possible to write very compact rules.
The group file is searched only when a name does not match that of the
logged-in user. Only groups are matched in which users are explicitly
listed: the program does not look at a user's primary group id value.
FILES
/etc/login.access login access control table
SEE ALSO
login(1), pam_login_access(8)
AUTHORS
Guido van Rooij
FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p6 January 30, 2020 FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p6