Hi,
I am a Linux / Unix newbie c programmer.
I have a c/c++ daemon server that will receive authentication (userid / password) from a windows client.
All I want to do is authenticate the user via PAM API - i.e. user must exist on the Unix / Linux system + password must be validated.
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I have a linux machine which authenticate users to ldap, this is working fine. But I would like to limit users that logon to the machines to just the system admins.
The machines hosts different web sites which users accessed from there home directory like http://foo.mdx.ac.uk/~username
At the... (0 Replies)
HI,
There is a user having problem when he try to login to solaris box, it works after few tried. What may be the problem?
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Hello Group,
I'm facing Problem with the configuration of "***pam_radius_auth.so.1***" module to be integrated with Freeradius and Funk Steel Belted Radius. Both this radius servers are able to make "Access-Accept" packet. But the SSH or Telnet client is not able to login to the system with the... (0 Replies)
My PAM module seems to work right but it fails in authentication. Althought it can't authenticate, the session module works and the software who uses it executes well.
For example, when I login through "gdm" using pam to authenticate against an ldap server
/var/log/auth.log shows
Any... (1 Reply)
Greetings!
I just managed to install Solaris 10 on a Sparc based machine. However, there might be a problem with the way ssh is configured.
I CAN ssh from the machine into another on the network (same subnet, as root), but then the newly installed machine CANNOT seem to accept incoming ssh... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I've configured two linux boxes to authenticate against Windows Active Directory using Kerberos while retrieving authorization data (uids, gids ,,,)from NIS.
The problem I ran into with my PAM configuration is that all authentication attempts succeed in order.i.e. if someone tried his... (0 Replies)
Hi all.
I'm having real trouble authenticating users against active directory for my SCO UnixWare 7.1.4 box running samba 3.0.24 (installed via Maintenance pack 4). I can list AD users/groups (after overcoming several hiccups) with wbinfo -g / wbinfo -u. I can use id to get a view an ad user ie:... (0 Replies)
I have applied pam authentication for local users as highlighted in below file.
# cat /etc/pam.d/system-auth
#%PAM-1.0
# This file is auto-generated.
# User changes will be destroyed the next time authconfig is run.
auth required pam_env.so
auth sufficient pam_unix.so... (0 Replies)
Hello all,
I recently updated PAM policy files (pam_authz.policy) on HP-UX Servers with AD groups involving allowing and denying the certain groups..
Could anyone tell me what is the equivalent mechanism in SLES(Linux)? Is it possible to allow/deny AD group access with the SLES LDAP... (0 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT ULTRIX
auth
auth(5) File Formats Manual auth(5)Name
auth - auth database
Description
The database is a repository of security-relevant information about each user of the system. This database contains the encrypted password
associated with the user's account in addition to a list of assorted capabilities. The database is stored as an database in the files and
Records are retrieved with the library routine. Access to the database is restricted to the superuser and members of the group
Auth records may be converted to an ASCII representation whose format is:
1000:4KvidFYwovnwp3j8lll78dC1:1920129:3600:2678400:03:0:1000:0:00:00
The first field is the UID of the entry that is used as the key into the database. Then follows:
Encrypted Password
This is the user's encrypted password. Whether this password or the one from the file is actually used is determined by the
security level that the system is running at.
Password Modification Time
This is the time(2) the password was last set.
Minimum Password Lifetime
This is the minimum number of seconds which must elapse between setting passwords.
Maximum Password Lifetime
This is the maximum period of time for which the password will be valid.
Account Mask These are capabilities pertaining to the account itself. They are:
1 A_ENABLE: this account is enabled.
2 A_CHANGE_PASSWORD: The user can change his or her password.
4 A_ENTER_PASSWORD: The user is not required to use machine-generated passwords.
Login Failure Count
This is the count of unsuccessful login attempts since the last successful login.
Audit ID Positive integer identifier used in generating audit records for the user.
Audit Control See the reference page, SET_APROC_CNTL section for more information.
Audit Mask Determines which events will be audited for the user. See the and reference pages for more information.
Restrictions
Only the superuser and members of the group may read information from the auth database. Only the superuser may modify the auth database.
FilesSee Alsoaudcntl(2), getauthuid(3), getpwent(3), edauth(8)auth(5)