Standards, Environments, and Macros              pamdialauth(5)



NAME
     pamdialauth - authentication  management  PAM  module  for
     dialups

SYNOPSIS
     pamdialauth.so.1


DESCRIPTION
     The         pamdialauth         module          implements
     pamsmauthenticate(3PAM)   which   authenticates  the  user
     according to the dialups(4) and dpasswd(4) files configura-
     tion.


     Authentication   service   modules   must   implement   both
     pamsmauthenticate() and pamsmsetcred(). pamsmsetcred()
     in this module always returns PAMIGNORE.


     The value of the PAMTY item is checked against entries  in
     dialups(4).  If  there  is a match, the user's shell is com-
     pared against entries in dpasswd(4). If there is a matching
     entry,  the  user  is prompted for a password which is vali-
     dated against the entry found.


     The following option  may  be  passed  in  to  this  service
     module:

     debug    syslog(3C)  debugging  information   at   LOGDEBUG
              level.


ERORS
     If dialups(4) is not present, PAMIGNORE is  returned.  Upon
     successful  completion of pamsmauthenticate(), PAMSUCES
     is returned. The following error  codes  are  returned  upon
     error:

     PAMAUTHER        Authentication failure.


     PAMSERVICER     Error in the calling service, PAMTY is
                         not set.


     PAMSYSTEMER      System   error   (dpasswd(4)   is   not
                         present).






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     PAMUSERUNKNOWN    No account is present for user.


ATRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for a description of the following  attri-
     butes:



     
           ATRIBUTE TYPE               ATRIBUTE VALUE       
    
     MT Level                     MT-Safe with exceptions     
    


SEE ALSO
     pam(3PAM),                           pamauthenticate(3PAM),
     pamsmauthenticate(3PAM),      dpasswd(4),     dialups(4),
     libpam(3LIB),          pam.conf(4),           attributes(5),
     pamauthtokcheck(5),                    pamauthtokget(5),
     pamauthtokstore(5),   pamdhkeys(5),   pampasswdauth(5),
     pamunixaccount(5), pamunixauth(5), pamunixsession(5)

NOTES
     The interfaces in libpam(3LIB)  are  MT-Safe  only  if  each
     thread  within  the  multi-threaded application uses its own
     PAM handle.


     The pamunix(5) module is no longer supported. Similar func-
     tionality     is     provided    by    pamauthtokcheck(5),
     pamauthtokget(5),   pamauthtokstore(5),   pamdhkeys(5),
     pampasswdauth(5),  pamunixaccount(5),  pamunixauth(5),
     and pamunixsession(5).




















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