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Non-root PAM authentication module available

Non-root PAM authentication module available

Post by Gary Mil » Mon, 03 Feb 2003 05:26:19



PAM authentication is sometimes difficult to employ because the PAM
module runs in the context of the caller, and therefore requires root
privileges.  I've written a PAM module called pam_shadow_auth that
avoids this restriction by communicating via RPC with a server program
that runs as root.  The PAM module and RPC server are written for
Solaris 2.6 and later Solaris versions.  Source is available at:

        http://mail.cc.umanitoba.ca/source/

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-Gary Mills-    -Unix Support-    -U of M Academic Computing and Networking-

 
 
 
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Hi Folks,

Here is the problem.

I have user A and user B (non-root users)

I need for user A to initiate a job as user B. How can this be done?

As you know, I can do this as root. I can start a process from root as
another user in the system (cron jobs come to my mind!) Is there a way
to do this for non-root users? I believe I need to be able to do
something like  as user A
"su - B" without being prompted for password.

Appreciate suggestions in advance.

Pasha

BTW: I am using AIX 4.3.10

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