                       pam_rhosts — The rhosts PAM module

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DESCRIPTION

This module performs the standard network authentication for services, as used
by traditional implementations of rlogin and rsh etc.

The authentication mechanism of this module is based on the contents of two
files: /etc/hosts.equiv and ~/.rhosts. Firstly, hosts listed in the former file
are treated as equivalent to the localhost. Secondly, entries in the user's own
copy of the latter file is used to map "remote-host remote-user" pairs to that
user's account on the current host. Access is granted to the user if their host
is present in /etc/hosts.equiv and their remote account is identical to their
local one, or if their remote account has an entry in their personal
configuration file.

The module authenticates a remote user (internally specified by the item
PAM_RUSER) connecting from the remote host (internally specified by the item
PAM_RHOST). Accordingly, for applications to be compatible with this
authentication module they must set these items prior to calling
pam_authenticate(). The module is not capable of independently probing the
network connection for such information.

OPTIONS

debug

        Print debug information.

silent

        Don't print informative messages.

superuser=account

        Handle account as root.

EXAMPLES

To grant a remote user access by /etc/hosts.equiv or .rhosts for rsh add the
following lines to /etc/pam.d/rsh:

#%PAM-1.0
#
auth     required       pam_rhosts.so
auth     required       pam_nologin.so
auth     required       pam_env.so
auth     required       pam_unix.so


AUTHOR

pam_rhosts was written by Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@thkukuk.de>
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