PAM_RHOSTS(8)

NAME
pam_rhosts - Rhosts PAM module

SYNOPSIS
[service-name] module-type control-flag pam_rhosts [options]

DESCRIPTION
The rhosts authentication service module for PAM, pam_rhosts provides functionality for only one PAM category: authentication. In terms of the module-type parameter, this is the “auth” feature.

  Rhosts Authentication Module
The Rhosts authentication component (pam_sm_authenticate()), returns success if and only if the target user's UID is not 0 and the remote host and user are listed in /etc/hosts.equiv or in the target user's ~/.rhosts.

The following options may be passed to the authentication module:

debug
    syslog(3) debugging information at LOG_DEBUG level.

no_warn
    suppress warning messages to the user. These messages include reasons why the user's authentication attempt was declined.

allow_root
    do not automatically fail if the target user's UID is 0.

SEE ALSO
hosts.equiv(5), pam.conf(5), pam(8)

AUTHORS
The pam_rhosts module and this manual page were developed for the FreeBSD Project by ThinkSec AS and NAI Labs, the Security Research Division of Network Associates, Inc. under DARPA/SPAWAR contract N66001-01-C-8035 (“CBOSS”), as part of the DARPA CHATS research program.