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<sect1>Add issue file to user prompt

<sect2>Synopsis

<p>
<descrip>

<tag><bf>Module Name:</bf></tag>
<tt/pam_issue/

<tag><bf>Author:</bf></tag>
Ben Collins &lt;bcollins@debian.org&gt;

<tag><bf>Maintainer:</bf></tag>
Author

<tag><bf>Management groups provided:</bf></tag>
Authentication (pam_sm_authenticate)

<tag><bf>Cryptographically sensitive:</bf></tag>
	
<tag><bf>Security rating:</bf></tag>

<tag><bf>Clean code base:</bf></tag>

<tag><bf>System dependencies:</bf></tag>

<tag><bf>Network aware:</bf></tag>

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<sect2>Overview of module

<p>
This module prepends the issue file (<em>/etc/issue</em> by default) when
prompting for a username.

<sect2>Authentication component

<p>
<descrip>

<tag><bf>Recognized arguments:</bf></tag>
<tt/issue=issue-file-name/; <tt/noesc/;

<tag><bf>Description:</bf></tag>
This module allows you to prepend an issue file to the username prompt. It
also by default parses escape codes in the issue file similar to some
common getty's (using &bsol;x format).
<p>
Recognized escapes:
<itemize>

<item><tt/d/
- current date

<item><tt/s/
- operating system name

<item><tt/l/
- name of this tty

<item><tt/m/
- architecture of this system (i686, sparc, powerpc, ...)

<item><tt/n/
- hostname of this system

<item><tt/o/
- domainname of this system

<item><tt/r/
- release number of the operation system (eg. 2.2.12)

<item><tt/t/
- current time

<item><tt/u/
- number of users currently logged in

<item><tt/U/
- same as <tt/u/, except it is suffixed with "user" or "users" (eg. "1
user" or "10 users"

<item><tt/v/
- version/build-date of the operating system (eg. "&num;3 Mon Aug 23 14:38:16
EDT 1999" on Linux).

</itemize>

<p>
The behavior of this module can be modified with one of the following
flags:

<p>
<itemize>

<item><tt/issue/
- the file to output if not using the default

<item><tt/noesc/
- turns off escape code parsing

</itemize>

<tag><bf>Examples/suggested usage:</bf></tag>

login  auth  pam_issue.so  issue=/etc/issue

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