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
(Fn 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.
The
module and this manual page were developed for the
Fx 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.
