Man page 5 : sepermit.conf

sepermit.conf - configuration file for the pam_sepermit module

The lines of the configuration file have the following syntax:

<user>[:<option>:<option>...]

The user can be specified in the following manner:


    .ie n \ \h'-04'\h'+03'\c .

2.3 . a username


    .ie n \ \h'-04'\h'+03'\c .

2.3 . a groupname, with \\fR syntax. This should not be confused with netgroups.


    .ie n \ \h'-04'\h'+03'\c .

2.3 . a SELinux user name with %seuser syntax.

The recognized options are:

exclusive
    Only single login session will be allowed for the user and the user\'s processes will be killed on logout.

ignore
    The module will never return PAM_SUCCESS status for the user. It will return PAM_IGNORE if SELinux is in the enforcing mode, and PAM_AUTH_ERR otherwise. It is useful if you want to support passwordless guest users and other confined users with passwords simultaneously.

The lines which start with # character are comments and are ignored.

These are some example lines which might be specified in /etc/security/sepermit.conf.


    .

%guest_u:exclusive
%staff_u:ignore
%user_u:ignore

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pam_sepermit(8), pam.d(5), pam(8), selinux(8),

pam_sepermit and this manual page were written by Tomas Mraz <>