PAMTESTER
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: March 2005
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NAME
pamtester - test pluggable authentication module (PAM) facility
SYNOPSIS
pamtester
[-v] [-I item=value] [-E var=value] service user operation [operation ...]
DESCRIPTION
Test pluggable authentication module (PAM) facility.
service is the PAM service name. user is the name of the user account to operate with the PAM facility. The following operations are supported.
- authenticate
-
Authenticate user. A conversation may subsequently take place to prompt
user input to retrieve necessary authentication information.
- acct_mgmt
-
Perform account management on user.
A conversation may subsequently take place to prompt user input for necessary
authentication information.
- open_session
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Open a new session for user.
- close_session
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Close the current session for user.
- chauthtok
-
Change the authentication token currently assigned to user.
Conversation may subsequently take place to prompt user input for necessary
authentication information.
Note that some operations may eventually need additional privileges to
fulfill the request depending on the service configuration.
Any operation may also be followed by the option flags that are provided
between the pair of parenthesis. Flags are all named and combinable or
inversible with bitwise operators; "|" (OR), "&" (AND), "^" (XOR) and "~" (NOT)
are accepted.
-
authenticate(PAM_SILENT | PAM_DISALLOW_NULL_AUTHTOK)
The list of allowed options is shown below:
- -
-
PAM_SILENT
- -
-
PAM_DISALLOW_NULL_AUTHTOK
- -
-
PAM_ESTABLISH_CRED
- -
-
PAM_REINITIALIZE_CRED
- -
-
PAM_REFRESH_CRED
- -
-
PAM_CHANGE_EXPIRED_AUTHTOK
Additional authentication information such as the name of the remote user,
the remote host and the tty can be supplied via -I (--item)
option.
The following types of information are supported:
- -
-
service
- -
-
user
- -
-
prompt
- -
-
tty
- -
-
ruser
- -
-
rhost
OPTIONS
- -v, --verbose
-
Turn on verbose mode.
- -I item=value, --item item=value
-
Provide additional information to authentication module.
- -E var=value, --env var=value
-
Set environment variable var to value
AUTHOR
Written by Moriyoshi Koizumi <moriyoshi@users.sourceforge.net>
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <pamtester-bugs@lists.sourceforge.net>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2004 - 2005 Moriyoshi Koizumi. All rights reserved.
SEE ALSO
pam(7)
Index
- NAME
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- OPTIONS
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- AUTHOR
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- REPORTING BUGS
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- COPYRIGHT
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- SEE ALSO
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