PAM Mastery by Michael W Lucas

PAM Mastery by Michael W Lucas

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 SH keys for more than SH
• password quality testing
• policies from CentOS, Debian, and FreeBSD
• and more

Transform PAM from a headache to an ally with PAM Mastery

Michael W. (Michael W.) Lucas is a network/security engineer who is constantly tasked with network issues that no one else wants to tackle. He is the author of the widely praised No Starch Press books Absolute FreeBSD, Absolute OpenBSD, Cisco Routers for the Desperate, and PGP & GPG.