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User authentification methods

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New page: == User authentification methods == OS4X supports two user authentification methods. Addition methods could be implemented in the future. === internal authentification === The user will b...

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== User authentification methods ==
OS4X supports two user authentification methods. Addition methods could be implemented in the future.

=== internal authentification ===
The user will be authentificated via a given username and a hashed password. This one-way hashed password is not recreatable and stored as a text field in the OS4X database. If you want to authentificate users with given credentials, you have to define a username and a non-empty password. The user will be able to change his password via [[OS4X Webaccess]], the end-user interface.

=== PAM ===
PAM ("Pluggable Authentication Modules") support a dynamic mode of authentification of users. In this way, a system administrator is able to define how users of OS4X will be authentificated. PAM is also used in many single-sign-on (SSO) environments. Many modules exist for PAM, so LDAP, MS Active Directory, NIS and other third-party authentification modes are available. In order to use PAM, you have to know the service name OS4X uses. Its fix-coded value is
os4x
So you have to create a file in your PAM configuration directory, which is in most cases
/etc/pam.d
The name of the file is the service name, so the absolute path to the OS4X PAM configuration file is:
/etc/pam.d/os4x
The content could be copied from existing configurations, the only method used is "<code>auth</code>". Here an example:
auth required pam_nologin.so
auth sufficient pam_securityserver.so
auth sufficient pam_unix.so
auth required pam_deny.so

For more information on PAM, refer to the documentation, available at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/Linux-PAM-html/

Some possible modules are documented here: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/modules.html

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 For more information on PAM, refer to the documentation, available at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/Linux-PAM-html/
 Some possible modules are documented here: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/modules.html