Managing Systems and Workgroups: A Guide for HP-UX System Administrators

Administering a System: Managing System Security
Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM)
Chapter 8848
user’s personal security device. If
the password doesn’t match the
database, quit. If it matches,
prompt the user for a new
password. This option is not
supported by DCE.
Default: If none of these options is specified, each
module behaves independently, each requesting
passwords and data in its normal fashion.
Lines beginning with # are comments.
The default contents of /etc/pam.conf are:
#
# PAM configuration
#
# Authentication management
#
login auth required /usr/lib/security/libpam_unix.1
su auth required /usr/lib/security/libpam_unix.1
dtlogin auth required /usr/lib/security/libpam_unix.1
dtaction auth required /usr/lib/security/libpam_unix.1
ftp auth required /usr/lib/security/libpam_unix.1
OTHER auth required /usr/lib/security/libpam_unix.1
#
# Account management
#
login account required /usr/lib/security/libpam_unix.1
su account required /usr/lib/security/libpam_unix.1
dtlogin account required /usr/lib/security/libpam_unix.1
dtaction account required /usr/lib/security/libpam_unix.1
ftp account required /usr/lib/security/libpam_unix.1
#
OTHER account required /usr/lib/security/libpam_unix.1
#
# Session management
#
login session required /usr/lib/security/libpam_unix.1
dtlogin session required /usr/lib/security/libpam_unix.1
dtaction session required /usr/lib/security/libpam_unix.1
OTHER session required /usr/lib/security/libpam_unix.1
#
# Password management
#
login password required /usr/lib/security/libpam_unix.1
passwd password required /usr/lib/security/libpam_unix.1