pam-hooks - Linux-PAM module for login/logout hooks
pam-hooks is a tiny teeny PAM module enabling the execution of hook scripts when a PAM session is opened or closed. The typical use case (actually, my use case) is the need of doing some per-user set-up when a user logs via a PAM-aware login mechanism (e.g. GDM in my case) and/or the need of doing some per-user clean-up when the user logs out.
In order to use pam-hooks you need to add a line like the
following at the end of the PAM configuration file of the service
you want the hooks to be attached to (e.g.
/etc/pam.d/gdm):
session required pam_hooks.so /some/where/pam-hook param1 ... paramN
The script /some/where/pam-hook will be invoked
both when the corresponding PAM session will be opened and when it
will be closed. The script will be executed using system() (so beware of what
you do!), and passed the following arguments in the following
order:
- all the positional parameters appended to the PAM
configuration line (will be
param1 ... paramNin the sample line above) - a single tag argument which will be one of
"open"(passed when the session is being opened),"close"(passed when the session is being closed) - a single username argument, corresponding to the user which is being opening/closing the session
Download
pam-hooks is freely distributed under the GNU General Public License; it is available here for download:
