salt.auth.pam

Authenticate against PAM

Provides an authenticate function that will allow the caller to authenticate a user against the Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) on the system.

Implemented using ctypes, so no compilation is necessary.

There is one extra configuration option for pam. The pam_service that is authenticated against. This defaults to login

auth.pam.service: login

Note

PAM authentication will not work for the root user.

The Python interface to PAM does not support authenticating as root.

Note

Using PAM groups with SSSD groups on python2.

To use sssd with the PAM eauth module and groups the pysss module is needed. On RedHat/CentOS this is python-sss.

This should not be needed with python >= 3.3, because the os modules has the getgrouplist function.

class salt.auth.pam.PamResponse: Wrapper class for pam_response structure

salt.auth.pam.authenticate(username, password)

Returns True if the given username and password authenticate for the given service. Returns False otherwise

username: the username to authenticate

password: the password in plain text

salt.auth.pam.groups(username, *args, **kwargs)

Retrieve groups for a given user for this auth provider

Uses system groups