I'm using ansible to provision my Centos 7 produciton cluster. Unfortunately, execution of below command results with ansible Tiemout and Linux Pluggable Authentication Modules (pam) error conversa...

I have a legacy app that receives a username/password request asynchronously over the wire. Since I already have the username and password stored as variables, what would be the best way to authent...

I need to write PAM module for Linux. Is it pretty way to debug it without the rebooting system each time when I need to test it? What happens if the unit will not operate properly and let in? How ...

I'm facing a weird behavior trying to run rsync as sudo through ssh with passwordless login. This is something I do with dozens of servers, I'm having this frustrating problem connecting to a coupl...

I am a little concerned with the amount of resources that I can use in a shared machine. Is there any way to test if the administrator has a limit in the amount of resources that I can use? And if ...

I've setup an LDAP server running on Centos 7. id, getent passwd, on users works. But 'ssh' failed. From /var/log/secure, it seems like authentication succeeded, but pam doesn't like somethin...

I am working on a radius authentication solution composed of a PAM module and an NSS module. The flow is like this: user ben login (via the login command) the user enters the username: ben my NSS ...

I'm having trouble finding an example on how to use pam_exec to run an external program that will authenticate users when they log in. I have the following in my pam.d file: auth required pam_exec....

I'm trying to build a C++ application which uses the library libpamg0-dev. I installed it with the following command on my elementaryOS VM. apt-get install libpam0g-dev When I try to compile the...

I wanted to enable PAM module packages in non-interactive mode. Running pam-auth-update will prompt a wizard to enable the module packages. I wanted to enable the module package [ ] Create home dir...

Can anyone tell me about this... I want to create a pam module similar to the login module in /etc/pam.d

I am using this module to authenticate using pam: http://code.google.com/p/web2py/source/browse/gluon/contrib/pam.py I can call authenticate('username','password') and it returns True/ False. It w...

I'm trying to minimize damage made by fork bombs inside of a docker container. I'm using pam_limits and /etc/security/limits.conf file is 1000:1128 hard nproc 40 1000:1128 soft nproc 40 This me...

I’m not an expert in regex and can't figure what I am supposed to change here. I get these two errors Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated, passed through in regex; marked by <-- HERE i...

I am trying to configure and understnad how the most common Jupyter authenticators work. However, I am having trouble understanding how LocalAuthenticator works and how it differs from PAMAuthentic...

[disclosure: I asked about this earlier on the NixOS channel but didn't get an answer after 30 minutes and it's a busy channel. If I get one there, I'll replicate it here] I'm trying to add ...

I use LUKS full disk encryption on my archlinux system. When i boot my system i used to input the same password three times. That always bothered me. Recently i found out how to unlock the gnome k...

I am working on a centOS 5.5 OS. It shows error that /security/pam_appl.h and /security/misc.h file is missing. Actually my rshd.c does not loads PAM module, may be by putting this libraries, it he...

I am looking for a PAM module that can use OpenID to do the authentication. My idea is that I want to logon my Linux box using my gmail account and password. I found there is a open source pr...

I'm looking for a way to let my Python program handle authentication through PAM. I'm using http://code.google.com/p/web2py/source/browse/gluon/contrib/pam.py for this, which works out great as lon...

I am writing a PAM module which writes the username/password in a file for further transaction by an other application. I only saw the PAM_AUTHTOK item but I'm not sure from which type is it. Anybo...

I have program written in C. It takes 2 arguments username/password and try to authenticate this user using PAM. It works fine when I'm root. When I'm 'normal' user, it works for this user, but not...

The following problem occurs on a machine running Ubuntu 10.04 with the 2.6.32-22-generic kernel: Setting a limit for the Resident Set Size (RSS) of a process does not seem to have any effect. I cu...

I'm trying to write a demo PAM module in C, which uses Embedding Python in C concept to run a script written in python (2.7), inside pam_sm_authenticate() function, which is written in C file (pam_...

PostgreSQL 9.2.4 I cannot login anymore with a user that has worked in the past. I assume a configuration problem. So for testing I created a test user role 'testing' with the same options as the ...