authenticate role via pam

[cormander]

Hello,

I've added a role with flags "sPG" name corman (which is also a user on the system with a password) to make corman a special role, to authenticate off of PAM.

With RBAC enabled, PAM auth is working with pamtester when the right password is typed, and failing when the wrong password is typed.

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[root@localhost ~]# pamtester -v login corman authenticate
pamtester: invoking pam_start(login, corman, ...)
pamtester: performing operation - authenticate
Password:
pamtester: successfully authenticated


However, "gradm -p corman" fails without even asking for a password. An strace on that command (running it under the admin role so I don't get permissions denied on the ptrace) reveals:

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[pid  7270] open("/etc/pam.d/gradm", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
[pid  7270] open("/etc/pam.d/other", O_RDONLY) = 3


I'm sure that gradm was built with pam support, the pam-devel package is installed and the gradm_pam binary exists. It seems that the /etc/pam.d/gradm file is missing... and it rolls back to "other", which basically is deny only. What is supposed to be in /etc/pam.d/gradm?

I'm using gradm-2.1.11-200803171746

[cormander]

HAH I feel like an idiot.

The moment I hit "submit" after previewing my thread... I thought to myself, "what if I symlnk system-auth to gradm".

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[root@c1inf047 ~]# cd /etc/pam.d/
[root@c1inf047 pam.d]# ln -s system-auth gradm
[root@c1inf047 pam.d]# gradm -E
[root@c1inf047 pam.d]# gradm -p corman
Password:
[root@c1inf047 pam.d]#


Hope this helps anyone else who runs into this problem.

spender, mind making the symlink a part of the "make install" for gradm?

[cormander]

And since system-auth is a redhat thing.... for other distros doing the symlink to /etc/pam.d/login should work as well.