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pam_rhosts_auth

Section: Standards, Environments, and Macros (5)
Updated: 28 Oct 1996
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NAME

pam_rhosts_auth - authentication management PAM module using ruserok()  

SYNOPSIS

/usr/lib/security/pam_rhosts_auth.so.1 
 

DESCRIPTION

The rhosts PAM module, /usr/lib/security/pam_rhosts_auth.so.1, authenticates a user via the rlogin authentication protocol. Only pam_sm_authenticate() is implemented within this module. pam_sm_authenticate() uses the ruserok(3SOCKET) library function to authenticate the rlogin or rsh user. pam_sm_setcred() is a null function.

/usr/lib/security/pam_rhosts_auth.so.1 is designed to be stacked on top of the /usr/lib/security/pam_unix.so.1 module for both the rlogin and rsh services. This module is normally configured as sufficient so that subsequent authentication is performed only on failure of pam_sm_authenticate(). The following option may be passed in to this service module:

debug syslog(3C) debugging information at LOG_DEBUG level.

 

ATTRIBUTES

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPEATTRIBUTE VALUE
MT LevelMT-Safe with exceptions

 

SEE ALSO

pam(3PAM), pam_authenticate(3PAM), ruserok(3SOCKET), syslog(3C), libpam(3LIB), pam.conf(4), attributes(5)  

NOTES

The interfaces in libpam() are MT-Safe only if each thread within the multi-threaded application uses its own PAM handle.


 

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