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pam_dhkeys(5)

NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | RETURN VALUES | ATTRIBUTES | SEE ALSO | NOTES

NAME

    pam_dhkeys- authentication Diffie-Hellman keys management module

SYNOPSIS

    pam_dhkeys.so.1
    

DESCRIPTION

    The pam_dhkeys.so.1 service module provides functionality to two PAM services: Secure RPC authentication and Secure RPC authentication token management.

    Secure RPC authentication differs from regular unix authentication because NIS+ and other ONC RPCs use Secure RPC as the underlying security mechanism.

    The following options may be passed to the module:

    debug

    syslog(3C)debugging information at LOG_DEBUG level

    nowarn

    Turn off warning messages

    Authentication Services

      If the user has Diffie-Hellman keys, pam_sm_authenticate() establishes secret keys for the user specified by the PAM_USER (equivalent to running keylogin(1)), using the authentication token found in the PAM_AUTHTOK item. Not being able to establish the secret keys results in an authentication error if the NIS+ repository is used to authenticate the user and the NIS+ table permissions require secure RPC credentials to access the password field. If pam_sm_setcred() is called with PAM_ESTABLISH_CRED and the user's secure RPC credentials need to be established, these credentials are set. This is equivalent to running keylogin(1).

      If the credentials could not be set and PAM_SILENT is not specified, a diagnostic message is displayed. If pam_setcred() is called with PAM_DELETE_CRED, the user's secure RPC credentials are unset. This is equivalent to running keylogout(1).

      PAM_REINITIALIZE_CRED and PAM_REFRESH_CRED are not supported and return PAM_IGNORE.

    Authentication Token Management

      The pam_sm_chauthtok() implementation checks whether the old login password decrypts the users secret keys. If it doesn't this module prompts the user for an old Secure RPC password and stores it in a pam data item called SUNW_OLDRPCPASS. This data item can be used by the store module to effectively update the users secret keys.

RETURN VALUES

    The authentication service returns the following values:

    PAM_SUCCESS

    Credentials set successfully.

    PAM_IGNORE

    Credentials not needed to access the password repository.

    PAM_USER_UNKNOWN

    PAM_USER is not set, or the user is unknown.

    PAM_AUTH_ERR

    No secret keys were set. PAM_AUTHTOK is not set, no credentials are present or there is a wrong password.

    PAM_BUF_ERR

    Module ran out of memory.

    PAM_SYSTEM_ERR

    NIS+ subsystem failed .

    The authentication token management returns the following values:

    PAM_SUCCESS

    Old rpc password is set in SUNW_OLDRPCPASS

    PAM_USER_UNKNOWN

    User in PAM_USER is unknown.

    PAM_AUTHTOK_ERR

    User did not provide a password that decrypts the secret keys.

    PAM_BUF_ERR

    Module ran out of memory.

ATTRIBUTES

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

    ATTRIBUTE TYPE 

    ATTRIBUTE VALUE 

    Interface Stability 

    Evolving 

    MT Level 

    MT-Safe with exceptions 

SEE ALSO

NOTES

SunOS 5.9  Last Revised 10 Dec 2001

NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | RETURN VALUES | ATTRIBUTES | SEE ALSO | NOTES