NAME

pam_guest — Guest PAM module

SYNOPSIS

[service-name] module-type control-flag pam_guest [arguments]

DESCRIPTION

The guest service module for PAM allows guest logins. If successful, the pam_guest module sets the PAM environment variable GUEST to the login name. The application can check this variable using pam_getenv(3) to differentiate guest logins from normal logins.

The following options may be passed to the pam_guest module:

guests=list

Comma-separated list of guest account names. The default is “guest”. A typical value for ftpd(8) would be “anonymous,ftp”.

nopass

Omits the password prompt if the target account is on the list of guest accounts.

pass_as_ruser

The password typed in by the user is exported as the PAM_RUSER item. This is useful for applications like ftpd(8) where guest users are encouraged to use their email address as password.

pass_is_user

Requires the guest user to type in the guest account name as password.

SEE ALSO

pam(3), pam_get_item(3), pam_getenv(3), pam.conf(5)

AUTHORS

The pam_guest module and this manual page were developed for the FreeBSD Project by ThinkSec AS and NAI Labs, the Security Research Division of Network Associates, Inc. under DARPA/SPAWAR contract N66001-01-C-8035 (“CBOSS”), as part of the DARPA CHATS research program.