man/pam_systemd_home.xml

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<refentry id="pam_systemd_home" conditional='ENABLE_PAM_HOME'>

  <refentryinfo>
    <title>pam_systemd_home</title>
    <productname>systemd</productname>
  </refentryinfo>

  <refmeta>
    <refentrytitle>pam_systemd_home</refentrytitle>
    <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
  </refmeta>

  <refnamediv>
    <refname>pam_systemd_home</refname>
    <refpurpose>Automatically mount home directories managed by <filename>systemd-homed.service</filename> on
    login, and unmount them on logout</refpurpose>
  </refnamediv>

  <refsynopsisdiv>
    <para><filename>pam_systemd_home.so</filename></para>
  </refsynopsisdiv>

  <refsect1>
    <title>Description</title>

    <para><command>pam_systemd_home</command> ensures that home directories managed by
    <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-homed.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
    are automatically activated (mounted) on user login, and are deactivated (unmounted) when the last
    session of the user ends.</para>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
    <title>Options</title>

    <para>The following options are understood:</para>

    <variablelist class='pam-directives'>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><varname>suspend=</varname></term>

        <listitem><para>Takes a boolean argument. If true, the home directory of the user will be suspended
        automatically during system suspend; if false it will remain active. Automatic suspending of the home
        directory improves security substantially as secret key material is automatically removed from memory
        before the system is put to sleep and must be re-acquired (through user re-authentication) when
        coming back from suspend. It is recommended to set this parameter for all PAM applications that have
        support for automatically re-authenticating via PAM on system resume. If multiple sessions of the
        same user are open in parallel the user's home directory will be left unsuspended on system suspend
        as long as at least one of the sessions does not set this parameter. Defaults to
        off.</para></listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><varname>debug</varname><optional>=</optional></term>

        <listitem><para>Takes an optional boolean argument. If yes or without the argument, the module will log
        debugging information as it operates.</para></listitem>
      </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
    <title>Module Types Provided</title>

    <para>The module provides all four management operations: <option>auth</option>, <option>account</option>,
    <option>session</option>, <option>password</option>.</para>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
    <title>Environment</title>

    <para>The following environment variables are initialized by the module and available to the processes of the
    user's session:</para>

    <variablelist class='environment-variables'>
      <varlistentry>
        <term><varname>$SYSTEMD_HOME=1</varname></term>

        <listitem><para>Indicates that the user's home directory is managed by <filename>systemd-homed.service</filename>.</para></listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
    <title>Example</title>

    <para>Here's an example PAM configuration fragment that permits users managed by
    <filename>systemd-homed.service</filename> to log in:</para>

    <programlisting>#%PAM-1.0
auth      sufficient pam_unix.so
-auth     sufficient pam_systemd_home.so
auth      required   pam_deny.so

account   required   pam_nologin.so
-account  sufficient pam_systemd_home.so
account   sufficient pam_unix.so
account   required   pam_permit.so

-password sufficient pam_systemd_home.so
password  sufficient pam_unix.so sha512 shadow try_first_pass try_authtok
password  required   pam_deny.so

-session  optional   pam_keyinit.so revoke
-session  optional   pam_loginuid.so
-session  optional   pam_systemd_home.so
-session  optional   pam_systemd.so
session   required   pam_unix.so</programlisting>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
    <title>See Also</title>
    <para>
      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-homed.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>homed.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>homectl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>pam_systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
      <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>pam.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
      <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>pam.d</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
      <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>pam</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
    </para>
  </refsect1>

</refentry>