NAME
pam_rhosts —
rhosts PAM module
SYNOPSIS
[service-name] module-type control-flag pam_rhosts [options]
DESCRIPTION
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
(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_DEBUGlevel. 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 ALSO
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.