PAM_RHOSTS(8) BSD System Manager's Manual PAM_RHOSTS(8)NAMEpam_rhosts — Rhosts PAM module
SYNOPSIS
[service-name] module-type control-flag pam_rhosts [options]
DESCRIPTION
The rhosts authentication service module for PAM, pam_rhosts 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 suc‐
cess 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 ALSOhosts.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.
BSD December 5, 2001 BSD
