16.8.1. Installed Documentation
PAM related man pages — There are a number of man pages for the various applications and configuration files involved with PAM. The following is a list of some of the more important man pages.
man pam — Good introductory information on PAM, including the structure and purpose of the PAM configuration files. Note that although this man page talks about the /etc/pam.conf file, the actual configuration files for PAM under Red Hat Enterprise Linux are in the /etc/pam.d/ directory.
man pam_console — Describes the purpose of the pam_console.so module. It also describes the appropriate syntax for an entry within a PAM configuration file.
man console.apps — Describes the format and options available within /etc/security/console.apps the configuration file which defines which applications are accessible by the console user assigned by PAM.
man console.perms — Describes the format and options available within /etc/security/console.perms, the configuration file for the console user permissions assigned by PAM.
man pam_timestamp — Describes the pam_timestamp.so module.
/usr/share/doc/pam-<version-number> — Contains a System Administrators' Guide, a Module Writers' Manual, and the Application Developers' Manual, as well as a copy of the PAM standard, DCE-RFC 86.0 (replace <version-number> with the version number of PAM).
/usr/share/doc/pam-<version-number>/txts/README.pam_timestamp — Contains information about the pam_timestamp.so PAM module (replace <version-number> with the version number of PAM).