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 (3)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(3) debugging information at LOG_DEBUG level.

ATTRIBUTES

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

ATTRIBUTE TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE
MT Level	MT-Safe with exceptions

SEE ALSO

pam (3),pam_authenticate(3), ruserok (3N),syslog(3), libpam(4), 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.