December 5, 2001 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 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 success 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.