are there any newbie guides to PAM administration?

[Dan Gahlinger]

I've looked at both of those.

The author of the pam_radius plugin has not be helpful

Dan.

> Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:04:09 +0000
> From: fajwilson at gmail.com
> To: pam-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: are there any newbie guides to PAM administration?
> 
> The PAM guides can be found here:
> 
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/Linux-PAM-html/
> 
> and downloadable guides are here:
> 
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/pre/doc/
> 
> They are not specific newbie guides, but they are
> more complete. They are most useful for getting your head around
> how plugins get composed together.
> 
> If the RADUIS plugin (or plugins) are not part of the core set, your
> best bet is to
> search for the webpage of the person who developed those plugins.
> 
> Frank
> 
> On 11/12/2007, Dan Gahlinger <dgahling at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >  I've googled as much as I can, read what I can find,
> > even read snippets of Oreilly books that have some information covering PAM,
> >
> > but so far, I have yet to find any really good documentation on where a
> > sysadmin can start understanding PAM.
> >
> > The basics are all there, but I can't find anything on adding or changing
> > authentication methods.
> >
> > Like say you want to add Radius authentication to the system, so local users
> > can login via radius.
> > just as an example.
> >
> > there is no documentation on how to do this, and radius docs don't help
> > much.
> >
> > there are some examples from an old version of RedHat about changing the
> > /etc/pam.conf but that is obsolete.
> >
> > None of the examples work, putting the appropriate configurations in
> > /etc/pam.d/login or sshd etc
> >
> > either does nothing, or locks me out.
> >
> > the examples seem to be in a different format than pam now accepts.
> >
> > are there any really good resources, or why hasn't there been a PAM book by
> > OReilly ?
> >
> > Dan.
> >
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