NAME
pam_rhosts
- rhosts PAM module
SYNOPSIS
[service-name]
module-type
control-flag
pam_rhosts
[options]
DESCRIPTION
The rhosts authentication service module for PAM
provides functionality for only one PAM category:
authentication.
In terms of the
module-type
parameter, this is the
``
auth
''
feature.
Rhosts Authentication Module
The Rhosts authentication component
(pam_sm_authenticate(
)),
returns success if and only if the target user's UID is not 0 and the
remote host and user are listed in
/etc/hosts.equiv
or in the target user's
~/.rhosts
.
The following options may be passed to the authentication module:
- debug
-
syslog(3)
debugging information at
LOG_DEBUG
level.
- no_warn
-
suppress warning messages to the user.
These messages include reasons why the user's authentication attempt
was declined.
- allow_root
-
do not automatically fail if the target user's UID is 0.
SEE ALSO
hosts.equiv(5),
pam.conf(5),
pam(8)
AUTHORS
The
pam_rhosts
module and this manual page were developed for the
FreeBSD
Project by
ThinkSec AS and NAI Labs, the Security Research Division of Network
Associates, Inc. under DARPA/SPAWAR contract N66001-01-C-8035
(``CBOSS''),
as part of the DARPA CHATS research program.