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PAM_RHOSTS(8)		     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 func-
     tionality	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
     pam(3), hosts.equiv(5), pam.conf(5)

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 Net-
     work  Associates,	Inc.  under   DARPA/SPAWAR   contract	N66001-01-C-8035
     ("CBOSS"), as part of the DARPA CHATS research program.

FreeBSD ports 15.quarterly	December 5, 2001		   PAM_RHOSTS(8)

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