What's PAM?

PAM is an abbreviation for pluggable authentication modules. This suite provides a much more flexible way to authenticate and authorize users by differing in services.

 Howto

The following steps will guide you through the installation of PAM. Please note that it is recommended to build fallback packages of sudo and shadow, because they will be replaced by modified version with enabled PAM-support. It is also recommended to run an open rootshell in background.

• get http://rugek.dirtyhack.net/dist/rugek.httpup
• copy rugek.httpup to /etc/ports
• update your ports (ports -u)
• add "prtdir /usr/ports/rugek" to /etc/prt-get.conf
• add your user to group wheel
• install cracklib,linux-pam,shadow and sudo

  $ prt-get depinst linux-pam
  $ cd /usr/ports/rugek/shadow && pkgmk -d
  $ pkgrm shadow
  $ pkgadd shadow#4.0.7-1.pkg.tar.gz
  $ cd /usr/ports/rugek/sudo && pkgmk -d
  $ pkgrm sudo
  $ pkgadd sudo#1.6.8p8-1.pkg.tar.gz
  

After processing these steps you will obtain a full-PAM-supported system. You can find the configurationfiles in /etc/pam.d/. The configuration is separated by the name of the services.

 Links

• project page
• administration guide
• pam mailinglist