Hi All,
How to enable pam in solaris 8. In my system /etc/pam.conf file is available and all modules which are specified in the file are also available at /usr/lib/security directory. Please let me know how to stop/start/enable ?
Do I need to install anything else ?
OS is Solaris 8 12/02 and patch version is 108528-29.
Thanks & Regards,
Ramana
> How to enable pam in solaris 8.
I'm not sure what you mean by "enable". It's part of the OS and is in use by a stock installation. I think you'd be hard pressed to "disable" it.
> In my system
> /etc/pam.conf file is available and all modules which
> are specified in the file are also available at
> /usr/lib/security directory. Please let me know how
> to stop/start/enable ?
PAM isn't a daemon or a program that gets started. It's an API and some libraries that are loaded by applications when they run. As long as the libraries and configuration files are in place, then you're done. From the man page:
DESCRIPTION
The PAM framework, libpam, consists of an interface library
and multiple authenticationservice modules.The PAM
interface library is the layer implementing the Application
Programming Interface ( API ). The authentication service
modules are a set of dynamically loadable objects invoked by
the PAM API to provide a particular type of user authentica-
tion. PAM gives system administrators the flexibility of
choosing any authentication service available on the system
to perform authentication. This framework also allows new
authentication service modules to be plugged in and made
available without modifying the applications.
Can I ask what prompts your question? Is there an issue you're having that you suspect to be PAM related?
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Darren
Hi Darren,
Thank you very much.
I dont have any problem with pam at my site. In my environment on some servers pam,sudo,tcp wrappers are implemented. So I started to learn one by one. I have got some idea how to implement sudo and tcp wrappers and with that idea i have implemented on my laptop and they are working fine as I expected. But in case of pam, i got just nothing. So I planned to implement on my laptop (solaris 8). But I dont know where to start. Thats why i have posted this query.
Can you guide me to implement pam on my laptop ?
I dont know whether it is a good question or silly question? If it is silly please excuse me.
Ramana
