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<h3 id="_validator_pam">Validator: PAM</h3><div style="clear:left"></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>The pam validator uses the <strong>Pluggable Authentication Module</strong> to validate the
username/password combination.</p></div>
<h4 id="parameters">Parameters</h4>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Users: You can restrict to some local system users</p></div>
<h4 id="compatibility">Compatibility</h4>
<div class="paragraph"><p>This validator is compatible with the <strong>basic</strong> scheme.</p></div>
<h4 id="example">Example</h4>
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<div class="paragraph"><p>Requires a valid user and password system pair to access the protected
directory. It will be available for all local users, unless a
restriction list is provided.</p></div>
<h4 id="notes">Notes</h4>
<div class="paragraph"><p>The PAM approach ensures a dynamic configuration for how the
authentication is performed. This dynamic configuration must be
specified. This means that a /etc/pam.d/cherokee file must define the
connection between Cherokee and the pluggable authentication modules
that perform the actual authentication tasks.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Cherokee’s installation procedure already takes care of the creation
of such file (under /etc or whatever system configuration directory is
used in your platform of choice). If you consistently fail to use the
PAM validator, make sure that such configuration definitions are set.</p></div>
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<div class="title">Sample: /etc/pam.d/cherokee</div>
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<pre><tt>#
# The PAM configuration file for Cherokee
#
account required pam_unix.so
auth required pam_unix.so nullok
auth required pam_env.so
session required pam_unix.so</tt></pre>
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