PAM_CHATTY(8)                                                    PAM_CHATTY(8)

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

       o   error - whether to output error level messages.

       o   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)