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# NAME

`pam_rhosts` —
rhosts PAM module

# SYNOPSIS

[service-name] module-type control-flag pam_rhosts [options]

# DESCRIPTION

The rhosts authentication service module for PAM provides functionality for only one PAM category: authentication. In terms of the module-type parameter, this is the “`auth`” feature.

## Rhosts Authentication Module

The Rhosts authentication component (`pam_sm_authenticate`()), returns success if and only if the target user's UID is not 0 and the remote host and user are listed in /etc/hosts.equiv or in the target user's ~/.rhosts.

The following options may be passed to the authentication module:

`debug`
  syslog(3) debugging information at `LOG_DEBUG` level.
`no_warn`
  suppress warning messages to the user. These messages include reasons why the user's authentication attempt was declined.
`allow_root`
  do not automatically fail if the target user's UID is 0.

# SEE ALSO

hosts.equiv(5), pam.conf(5), pam(8)

# AUTHORS

The `pam_rhosts` module and this manual page were developed for the FreeBSD Project by ThinkSec AS and NAI Labs, the Security Research Division of Network Associates, Inc. under DARPA/SPAWAR contract N66001-01-C-8035 (“CBOSS”), as part of the DARPA CHATS research program.

December 5, 2001 | NetBSD 10.0