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
.
salt.auth.pam.
PamConv
¶Wrapper class for pam_conv structure
appdata_ptr
¶Structure/Union member
conv
¶Structure/Union member
salt.auth.pam.
PamMessage
¶Wrapper class for pam_message structure
msg
¶Structure/Union member
msg_style
¶Structure/Union member
salt.auth.pam.
PamResponse
¶Wrapper class for pam_response structure
resp
¶Structure/Union member
resp_retcode
¶Structure/Union member
salt.auth.pam.
auth
(username, password, **kwargs)¶Authenticate via pam
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