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diff --git a/modules/pam_rhosts/README b/modules/pam_rhosts/README deleted file mode 100644 index aedc0f5d..00000000 --- a/modules/pam_rhosts/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,56 +0,0 @@ -pam_rhosts — The rhosts PAM module - -━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ - -DESCRIPTION - -This module performs the standard network authentication for services, as used -by traditional implementations of rlogin and rsh etc. - -The authentication mechanism of this module is based on the contents of two -files; /etc/hosts.equiv (or and ~/.rhosts. Firstly, hosts listed in the former -file are treated as equivalent to the localhost. Secondly, entries in the -user's own copy of the latter file is used to map "remote-host remote-user" -pairs to that user's account on the current host. Access is granted to the user -if their host is present in /etc/hosts.equiv and their remote account is -identical to their local one, or if their remote account has an entry in their -personal configuration file. - -The module authenticates a remote user (internally specified by the item -PAM_RUSER connecting from the remote host (internally specified by the item -PAM_RHOST). Accordingly, for applications to be compatible this authentication -module they must set these items prior to calling pam_authenticate(). The -module is not capable of independently probing the network connection for such -information. - -OPTIONS - -debug - - Print debug information. - -silent - - Don't print informative messages. - -superuser=account - - Handle account as root. - -EXAMPLES - -To grant a remote user access by /etc/hosts.equiv or .rhosts for rsh add the -following lines to /etc/pam.d/rsh: - -#%PAM-1.0 -# -auth required pam_rhosts.so -auth required pam_nologin.so -auth required pam_env.so -auth required pam_unix.so - - -AUTHOR - -pam_rhosts was written by Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@thkukuk.de> - |