PAM_RHOSTS(8)		  BSD System Manager's Manual		 PAM_RHOSTS(8)

NAME
     pam_rhosts — Rhosts PAM module

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

DESCRIPTION
     The rhosts authentication service module for PAM, pam_rhosts 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 suc‐
     cess 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.

BSD			       December 5, 2001 			   BSD