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| author | Clément Lassieur <clement@lassieur.org> | 2017-03-02 22:06:27 +0100 |
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| committer | Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> | 2017-03-10 19:23:43 +0100 |
| commit | 563c5d42c954eacc54151d46a04ae14b9dbb1a10 (patch) | |
| tree | 3650d8809e312bf90099b4577203b388c822cc93 /doc | |
| parent | 856be823235d488bf5d580b0b0340ec93d042e28 (diff) | |
services: openssh: Enable PAM.
* gnu/services/ssh.scm: (openssh-pam-services): New procedure.
(openssh-service-type): Use it to extend PAM-ROOT-SERVICE-TYPE.
(<openssh-configuration>)[challenge-response-authentication?]: New field.
(<openssh-configuration>)[use-pam?]: New field.
(openssh-config-file): Add them.
* doc/guix.texi (Networking Services): Document them.
Signed-off-by: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/guix.texi | 16 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 18821b9a9e..5aed6771db 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -9344,6 +9344,22 @@ enabled---in other words, @command{ssh} options @option{-X} and @item @code{protocol-number} (default: @code{2}) The SSH protocol number to use. + +@item @code{challenge-response-authentication?} (default: @code{#f}) +Specifies whether challenge response authentication is allowed (e.g. via +PAM). + +@item @code{use-pam?} (default: @code{#t}) +Enables the Pluggable Authentication Module interface. If set to +@code{#t}, this will enable PAM authentication using +@code{challenge-response-authentication?} and +@code{password-authentication?}, in addition to PAM account and session +module processing for all authentication types. + +Because PAM challenge response authentication usually serves an +equivalent role to password authentication, you should disable either +@code{challenge-response-authentication?} or +@code{password-authentication?}. @end table @end deftp |