NAME

       pam_chatty - A PAM test module that generates PAM info and error messages.

SYNOPSIS

       pam_chatty.so [...]

DESCRIPTION

       The pam_chatty module makes it easy to replicate the behaviour of PAM modules that generate a lot of
       output, in order to ensure that PAM clients react as expected.

IMPORTANT

       pam_chatty is a test tool. It should be considered completely insecure and never used outside test
       environments! As you’ll see when reading description of the options, many of them don’t make any sense in
       the real world and were added just to make tests possible.

       The pam_chatty module generates a lot of PAM info and error output, when its authentication method is
       called, and then returns success.

OPTIONS

       •   num_lines=NUMBER - the number of lines of messages to output, for each one of the enabled types of
           messages selected.

       •   error - whether to output error level messages.

       •   info - whether to output info level messages.

MODULE TYPES PROVIDED

       Only the auth module type is supported.

EXAMPLE

           auth            required        pam_chatty.so num_lines=16 info error

                                                   2020-03-05                                      PAM_CHATTY(8)