ser is allowed to continue authentication. Either the user is not root, or the root user is trying to log in on an acceptable device.
PAM_AUTH_ERR

  Authentication is rejected. Either root is attempting to log in via an unacceptable device, or the `securetty` file is world writable or not a normal file.

PAM_BUF_ERR

  Memory buffer error.

PAM_CONV_ERR

  The conversation method supplied by the application failed to obtain the username.

PAM_INCOMPLETE

  The conversation method supplied by the application returned PAM_CONV_AGAIN.

PAM_SERVICE_ERR

  An error occurred while the module was determining the user's name or tty, or the module could not open the `securetty` file.

PAM_USER_UNKNOWN

  The module could not find the user name in the `/etc/passwd` file to verify whether the user had a UID of 0. Therefore, the results of running this module are ignored.

### 6.29.5. EXAMPLES

    auth  required  pam_securetty.so
    auth  required  pam_unix.so

### 6.29.6. AUTHOR

pam_securetty was written by Elliot Lee <sopwith@cuc.edu>.

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