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35.\" $FreeBSD$
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37.Dd December 5, 2001
38.Dt PAM_RHOSTS 8
39.Os
40.Sh NAME
41.Nm pam_rhosts
42.Nd Rhosts PAM module
43.Sh SYNOPSIS
44.Op Ar service-name
45.Ar module-type
46.Ar control-flag
47.Pa pam_rhosts
48.Op Ar options
49.Sh DESCRIPTION
50The rhosts authentication service module for PAM,
51.Nm
52provides functionality for only one PAM category:
53authentication.
54In terms of the
55.Ar module-type
56parameter, this is the
57.Dq Li auth
58feature.
59.Ss Rhosts Authentication Module
60The Rhosts authentication component
61.Pq Fn pam_sm_authenticate ,
62returns success if and only if the target user's UID is not 0 and the
63remote host and user are listed in
64.Pa /etc/hosts.equiv
65or in the target user's
66.Pa ~/.rhosts .
67.Pp
68The following options may be passed to the authentication module:
69.Bl -tag -width ".Cm allow_root"
70.It Cm debug
71.Xr syslog 3
72debugging information at
73.Dv LOG_DEBUG
74level.
75.It Cm no_warn
76suppress warning messages to the user.
77These messages include reasons why the user's authentication attempt
78was declined.
79.It Cm allow_root
80do not automatically fail if the target user's UID is 0.
81.El
82.Sh SEE ALSO
83.Xr hosts.equiv 5 ,
84.Xr pam.conf 5 ,
85.Xr pam 8
86.Sh AUTHORS
87The
88.Nm
89module and this manual page were developed for the
90.Fx
91Project by
92ThinkSec AS and NAI Labs, the Security Research Division of Network
93Associates, Inc.\& under DARPA/SPAWAR contract N66001-01-C-8035
94.Pq Dq CBOSS ,
95as part of the DARPA CHATS research program.
96