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From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
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Subject: Re: Controlling PAM modules
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"Ivan Grover" <ivangrvr299@gmail.com> writes:
> Suppose i dont want to enable locking of users, then one solution i
> can think of is to share a common database across application and pam
> modules.  The application sets the flag which indicates, if pam_able
> is included or not. Then pam_abl module will look into this database
> and then return simply PAM_SUCCESS always or process the user
> lockouts.

Put pam_able in a separate policy that you include in the others.
Whenever you want to disable it, just comment out the contents of that
policy.

DES
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