Client Connected: PAM

2018/06/11

Pulling SSH keys is neat and all, but its much more impressive to be hooked into the PAM stack. That’s where pam_netauth comes in. This is a client that implements the NetAuth protocol in a PAM plugin for use on Linux and Darwin systems.

The module is written in Go and uses the -buildmode=c-shared mechanism to generate pam_netauth.so for use with the PAM stack. The module implements the ‘auth’ handler only as the management of credentials is expected to take place outside the local system via either netauthctl or via a site specific IDP interface.

The code for pam_netauth lives at GitHub.

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