pam_unix2(8) Reference Manual pam_unix2(8)NAMEpam_unix2 - Standard PAM module for traditional password authentication
DESCRIPTION
The pam_unix2 PAM module is for traditional password authentication. It
uses standard calls from the glibc NSS libraries to retrieve and set
account information as well as authentication. Usually this is obtained
from the the local files /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow or from a NIS
map.
The options can be added in the PAM configuration files for every sin‐
gle service. /etc/default/passwd defines, which password encryption
algorithm should be used in case of a password change.
If a user matches an entry in /etc/security/uname26.conf and a kernel
3.0 or newer is running, the kernel version number will be changed for
this session to 2.6.40. Every line of that config file is an own entry
in regexec(3p) format.
OPTIONS
The following options may be passed to all types of management groups
except session:
debug A lot of debug informations are printed with syslog(3).
nullok Normally the account is disabled if no password is set or if the
length of the password is zero. With this option the user is
allowed to change the password for such accounts. This option
does not overwrite a hardcoded default by the calling process.
use_first_pass
The default is, that pam_unix2 tries to get the authentication
token from a previous module. If no token is available, the
user is asked for the old password. With this option, pam_unix2
aborts with an error if no authentication token from a previous
module is available.
The following additional options may be passed to the passwd rules of
this modules:
nisdir=<path>
This options specifies a path to the source files for NIS maps
on a NIS master server. If this option is given, the passwords
of NIS accounts will not be changed with yppasswd(1), instead
the local passwd and shadow files below <path> will be modified.
In conjunction with rpasswdd(8) and pam_make rpc.yppasswdd(8)
can be replaced with a more secure solution on the NIS master
server.
use_authtok
Set the new password to the one provided by the previously
stacked password module. If this option is not set, pam_unix2
would ask the user for the new password.
One of the following options may be passed to the session rules of this
modules:
debug Some messages (login time, logout time) are logged to syslog
with priority LOG_DEBUG.
trace Some messages (login time, logout time) are logged to syslog
with priority LOG_NOTICE.
none No messages are logged. This is the default.
The acct management does not recognize any additional options. For
root, password and login expire are ignored, only on aging warning is
printed. If no shadow information exists, it always returns success.
FILES
/etc/default/passwd
SEE ALSOlogin(1), passwd(1), pam.conf(5), pam.d(8), pam_pwcheck(8), pam(8),
rpasswd(1), rpasswdd(8), rpc.yppasswdd(8), yppasswd(1)pam_unix2 September 2011 pam_unix2(8)
