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35.Dd December 5, 2001
36.Dt PAM_RHOSTS 8
37.Os
38.Sh NAME
39.Nm pam_rhosts
40.Nd Rhosts PAM module
41.Sh SYNOPSIS
42.Op Ar service-name
43.Ar module-type
44.Ar control-flag
45.Pa pam_rhosts
46.Op Ar options
47.Sh DESCRIPTION
48The rhosts authentication service module for PAM,
49.Nm
50provides functionality for only one PAM category:
51authentication.
52In terms of the
53.Ar module-type
54parameter, this is the
55.Dq Li auth
56feature.
57.Ss Rhosts Authentication Module
58The Rhosts authentication component
59.Pq Fn pam_sm_authenticate ,
60returns success if and only if the target user's UID is not 0 and the
61remote host and user are listed in
62.Pa /etc/hosts.equiv
63or in the target user's
64.Pa ~/.rhosts .
65.Pp
66The following options may be passed to the authentication module:
67.Bl -tag -width ".Cm allow_root"
68.It Cm debug
69.Xr syslog 3
70debugging information at
71.Dv LOG_DEBUG
72level.
73.It Cm no_warn
74suppress warning messages to the user.
75These messages include reasons why the user's authentication attempt
76was declined.
77.It Cm allow_root
78do not automatically fail if the target user's UID is 0.
79.El
80.Sh SEE ALSO
81.Xr pam 3 ,
82.Xr hosts.equiv 5 ,
83.Xr pam.conf 5
84.Sh AUTHORS
85The
86.Nm
87module and this manual page were developed for the
88.Fx
89Project by
90ThinkSec AS and NAI Labs, the Security Research Division of Network
91Associates, Inc.\& under DARPA/SPAWAR contract N66001-01-C-8035
92.Pq Dq CBOSS ,
93as part of the DARPA CHATS research program.
94