PAM Mastery (IT Mastery) (Volume 10)

Pluggable Authentication Modules: Threat or Menace?

PAM is one of the most misunderstood parts of systems administration. Many sysadmins live with authentication problems rather than risk making them worse. PAM s very nature makes it unlike any other Unix access control system.

If you have PAM misery or PAM mysteries, you need PAM Mastery!

With PAM Mastery, you ll understand:

• the different versions of PAM
• the intricacies of Linux-PAM and OpenPAM
• how PAM policies make decisions
• how to debug PAM
• the most frequently seen PAM modules
• Linux-PAM extended controls and substacks
• time-based one-time passwords
• using SSH keys for more than SSH
• password quality testing
• policies from CentOS, Debian, and FreeBSD
• and more!

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