HP CIFS Client A.01.09 Administrator's Guide, August 2003

PAM NTLM
Introduction
Chapter 8104
Introduction
PAM NTLM ( NT Lan Manager) is a Pluggable Authentication Module
(PAM) that enables HP-UX users to be authenticated against Windows
servers during system login.
PAM is an authentication framework in UNIX, used to authenticate
users logging into a UNIX system. PAM loads a dynamically loadable
module (shared library) that performs the actual authentication. PAM
can also be configured to use multiple shared library modules.
PAM NTLM uses NT servers to authenticate users logging into an
HP-UX system. In other words, PAM NTLM uses the NT LanManager
protocol to authenticate the UNIX users. It sends the UNIX user’s name
and password to the NT server for validation and returns the result to
the PAM framework. The HP CIFS client uses the PAM NTLM
authentication information to access the shares on the HP CIFS server.
Thus, users logging into an HP-UX system can access CIFS-mounted file
systems without having to use the cifslogin command.