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The Debian Package pam-ssh-agent-auth
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pam_ssh_agent_auth is a PAM module which permits PAM authentication via your
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keyring in a forwarded ssh-agent.
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Release 0.10.2 is stable, and has been tested on FreeBSD, Solaris 10, Solaris 11,
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RHEL5, RHEL6, Debian Wheezy, Ubuntu 12.04 (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10,
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and MacOS X 10.7.
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This module can be used to provide authentication for anything run locally that
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supports PAM. It was written specifically with the intention of permitting
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authentication for sudo without password entry, and also has been proven useful
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for use with su as an alternative to wheel.
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It serves as middle ground between the two most common, and suboptimal
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alternatives for large-scale system administration: allowing rootlogin via ssh,
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or using NOPASSWD in sudoers. This module allows for ssh public-key
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authentication, and it does this by leveraging an authentication mechanism you
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are probably already using, ssh-agent.
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There are caveats of course, ssh-agent forwarding has it’s own security risks
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which must be carefully considered for your environment. In cases where there
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are not untrustworthy intermediate servers, and you wish to retain traceability,
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accountability, and required authentication for privileged command invocation,
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the benefits should outweigh the risks. Release 0.10.2 can be downloaded from
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SourceForge: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=249556
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If you encounter any issues with usability or security, please use the project's
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SourceForge tracker:
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https://sourceforge.net/tracker2/?group_id=249556&atid=1126337
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Note that if you wish to use this for sudo, you will need a version of sudo that
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preserves the env_keep environment during authentication; and ideally a version
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incorporating my minor patch which ensures RUSER is set during PAM authentication.
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sudo 1.6.8p12 does not work correctly with this PAM module, because it clears the
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environment (even env_keep variables) prior to attempting PAM authentication.
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sudo 1.7.2p1 or later is preferred, as it correctly sets PAM_RUSER for
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authentication.
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-- Jamie Beverly <soupboy@sourceforge.net> Wed, 13 Jan 2010 01:08:49 +0300
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