Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:20:44 +0530 From: "Ivan Grover" <ivangrvr299@gmail.com> To: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=" <des@des.no> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Controlling PAM modules Message-ID: <670f29e20809230050ved14880m1b5524f0f976d12d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <670f29e20809230044m25792007j6477399cdc4e8fd4@mail.gmail.com> References: <670f29e20809170453o43a2ae37sfd548de1ea7e70be@mail.gmail.com> <86od2gmxke.fsf@ds4.des.no> <670f29e20809230044m25792007j6477399cdc4e8fd4@mail.gmail.com>
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I think there is something like auth include lockout-users I feel this would be the right way to do this. Thanks ALL for your suggesti= ons. On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Ivan Grover <ivangrvr299@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks a lot. Please corrrect if my understanding below is what you have > suggested. > > > create a separate service conf file such as lockout-users in /etc/pam.d, > then in my service conf file, i write like this > auth required pam_stack.so service=3Dlockout-users > > After that whenever i want to disable the lockout, just edit the > /etc/pam.d/lockout-users file > and comment as below: > > #auth required pam_able.so > > > Best Regards, > Ivan > > > On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav <des@des.no> wrote= : > >> "Ivan Grover" <ivangrvr299@gmail.com> writes: >> > Suppose i dont want to enable locking of users, then one solution i >> > can think of is to share a common database across application and pam >> > modules. The application sets the flag which indicates, if pam_able >> > is included or not. Then pam_abl module will look into this database >> > and then return simply PAM_SUCCESS always or process the user >> > lockouts. >> >> Put pam_able in a separate policy that you include in the others. >> Whenever you want to disable it, just comment out the contents of that >> policy. >> >> DES >> -- >> Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no >> > >
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