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<chapter id="pam">
<chapterinfo>
        <author>
		<firstname>John</firstname><surname>Terpstra</surname>
                <affiliation>
                        <orgname>Samba Team</orgname>
			<address>
			<email>jht@samba.org</email>
			</address>
                </affiliation>
        </author>
        <pubdate> (Jun 21 2001) </pubdate>
</chapterinfo>
 
<title>PAM Configuration for Centrally Managed Authentication</title>

<sect1>
<title>Samba and PAM</title>

<para>
A number of Unix systems (eg: Sun Solaris), as well as the 
xxxxBSD family and Linux, now utilize the Pluggable Authentication 
Modules (PAM) facility to provide all authentication, 
authorization and resource control services. Prior to the 
introduction of PAM, a decision to use an alternative to 
the system password database (<filename>/etc/passwd</filename>) 
would require the provision of alternatives for all programs that provide 
security services. Such a choice would involve provision of 
alternatives to such programs as: <command>login</command>, 
<command>passwd</command>, <command>chown</command>, etc.
</para>

<para>
PAM provides a mechanism that disconnects these security programs 
from the underlying authentication/authorization infrastructure.
PAM is configured either through one file <filename>/etc/pam.conf</filename> (Solaris), 
or by editing individual files that are located in <filename>/etc/pam.d</filename>.
</para>

<note>
	<para>
	If the PAM authentication module (loadable link library file) is located in the
	default location then it is not necessary to specify the path. In the case of
	Linux, the default location is <filename>/lib/security</filename>. If the module
	is located other than default then the path may be specified as:
	
	<programlisting>
	eg: "auth       required      /other_path/pam_strange_module.so"
	</programlisting>
	</para>
</note>

<para>
The following is an example <filename>/etc/pam.d/login</filename> configuration file. 
This example had all options been uncommented is probably not usable 
as it stacks many conditions before allowing successful completion 
of the login process. Essentially all conditions can be disabled 
by commenting them out except the calls to <filename>pam_pwdb.so</filename>.
</para>

<para><programlisting>
	#%PAM-1.0
	# The PAM configuration file for the `login' service
	#
	auth 		required	pam_securetty.so
	auth 		required	pam_nologin.so
	# auth 		required	pam_dialup.so
	# auth 		optional	pam_mail.so
	auth		required	pam_pwdb.so shadow md5
	# account    	requisite  	pam_time.so
	account		required	pam_pwdb.so
	session		required	pam_pwdb.so
	# session 	optional	pam_lastlog.so
	# password   	required   	pam_cracklib.so retry=3
	password	required	pam_pwdb.so shadow md5
</programlisting></para>

<para>
PAM allows use of replacable modules. Those available on a 
sample system include:
</para>

<para><programlisting>
	$ /bin/ls /lib/security
	pam_access.so    pam_ftp.so          pam_limits.so     
	pam_ncp_auth.so  pam_rhosts_auth.so  pam_stress.so     
	pam_cracklib.so  pam_group.so        pam_listfile.so   
	pam_nologin.so   pam_rootok.so       pam_tally.so      
	pam_deny.so      pam_issue.so        pam_mail.so       
	pam_permit.so    pam_securetty.so    pam_time.so       
	pam_dialup.so    pam_lastlog.so      pam_mkhomedir.so  
	pam_pwdb.so      pam_shells.so       pam_unix.so       
	pam_env.so       pam_ldap.so         pam_motd.so       
	pam_radius.so    pam_smbpass.so      pam_unix_acct.so  
	pam_wheel.so     pam_unix_auth.so    pam_unix_passwd.so
	pam_userdb.so    pam_warn.so         pam_unix_session.so
</programlisting></para>

<para>
The following example for the login program replaces the use of 
the <filename>pam_pwdb.so</filename> module which uses the system 
password database (<filename>/etc/passwd</filename>,
<filename>/etc/shadow</filename>, <filename>/etc/group</filename>) with 
the module <filename>pam_smbpass.so</filename> which uses the Samba 
database which contains the Microsoft MD4 encrypted password 
hashes. This database is stored in either 
<filename>/usr/local/samba/private/smbpasswd</filename>, 
<filename>/etc/samba/smbpasswd</filename>, or in 
<filename>/etc/samba.d/smbpasswd</filename>, depending on the 
Samba implementation for your Unix/Linux system. The 
<filename>pam_smbpass.so</filename> module is provided by 
Samba version 2.2.1 or later. It can be compiled by specifying the 
<command>--with-pam_smbpass</command> options when running Samba's
<filename>configure</filename> script.  For more information
on the <filename>pam_smbpass</filename> module, see the documentation
in the <filename>source/pam_smbpass</filename> directory of the Samba 
source distribution.
</para>

<para><programlisting>
	#%PAM-1.0
	# The PAM configuration file for the `login' service
	#
	auth		required	pam_smbpass.so nodelay
	account		required	pam_smbpass.so nodelay
	session		required	pam_smbpass.so nodelay
	password	required	pam_smbpass.so nodelay
</programlisting></para>

<para>
The following is the PAM configuration file for a particular 
Linux system. The default condition uses <filename>pam_pwdb.so</filename>.
</para>

<para><programlisting>
	#%PAM-1.0
	# The PAM configuration file for the `samba' service
	#
	auth       required     pam_pwdb.so nullok nodelay shadow audit
	account    required     pam_pwdb.so audit nodelay
	session    required     pam_pwdb.so nodelay
	password   required     pam_pwdb.so shadow md5
</programlisting></para>

<para>
In the following example the decision has been made to use the 
smbpasswd database even for basic samba authentication. Such a 
decision could also be made for the passwd program and would 
thus allow the smbpasswd passwords to be changed using the passwd 
program.
</para>

<para><programlisting>
	#%PAM-1.0
	# The PAM configuration file for the `samba' service
	#
	auth       required     pam_smbpass.so nodelay
	account    required     pam_pwdb.so audit nodelay
	session    required     pam_pwdb.so nodelay
	password   required     pam_smbpass.so nodelay smbconf=/etc/samba.d/smb.conf
</programlisting></para>

<note><para>PAM allows stacking of authentication mechanisms. It is 
also possible to pass information obtained within one PAM module through 
to the next module in the PAM stack. Please refer to the documentation for 
your particular system implementation for details regarding the specific 
capabilities of PAM in this environment. Some Linux implmentations also 
provide the <filename>pam_stack.so</filename> module that allows all 
authentication to be configured in a single central file. The 
<filename>pam_stack.so</filename> method has some very devoted followers 
on the basis that it allows for easier administration. As with all issues in 
life though, every decision makes trade-offs, so you may want examine the 
PAM documentation for further helpful information.
</para></note>

</sect1>

<sect1>
<title>Distributed Authentication</title>

<para>
The astute administrator will realize from this that the 
combination of <filename>pam_smbpass.so</filename>, 
<command>winbindd</command>, and a distributed 
passdb backend, such as ldap, will allow the establishment of a
centrally managed, distributed 
user/password database that can also be used by all 
PAM (eg: Linux) aware programs and applications. This arrangement 
can have particularly potent advantages compared with the 
use of Microsoft Active Directory Service (ADS) in so far as 
reduction of wide area network authentication traffic.
</para>

</sect1>

<sect1>
<title>PAM Configuration in smb.conf</title>

<para>
There is an option in smb.conf called <ulink 
url="smb.conf.5.html#OBEYPAMRESTRICTIONS">obey pam restrictions</ulink>. 
The following is from the on-line help for this option in SWAT;
</para>

<para>
When Samba is configured to enable PAM support (i.e. 
<constant>--with-pam</constant>), this parameter will 
control whether or not Samba should obey PAM's account 
and session management directives. The default behavior 
is to use PAM for clear text authentication only and to 
ignore any account or session management. Note that Samba always 
ignores PAM for authentication in the case of 
<ulink url="smb.conf.5.html#ENCRYPTPASSWORDS">encrypt passwords = yes</ulink>. 
The reason is that PAM modules cannot support the challenge/response 
authentication mechanism needed in the presence of SMB 
password encryption. 
</para>

<para>Default: <command>obey pam restrictions = no</command></para>

</sect1>
</chapter>