Understanding PAM, Pluggable Authentication Modules in Linux

[@adrianopinaffo]

It is a shame Andrew doesn’t have more than 1 million subscribers. He is maybe the oldest Linux UA-camr and always with relevant content.

[@theurbanpenguin]

You are too kind, thank you

[@ARemi-zp6wb]

I know, they don’t know what they are missing. I have shared him with my friends

[@AhoyCapnLinux]

Thank you for this, genuinely. Deep diving docs on these critical but often archaic systems can be extremely tedious.

[@theurbanpenguin]

Excellent, I am glad you found it useful. This was a request from another subscriber. You can always request and If I can cover ity I will

[@dand.9415]

Alternative Path: On Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS, found modules in /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/security.

[@drgr33nUK]

The amount of times I've locked myself out of my desktop when messing with PAM is a lot :) Last time I did it I was trying to add a second factor key.

[@theurbanpenguin]

LOL

[@ARemi-zp6wb]

Another awesome video from my favorite UA-camr, thank you. I got a question, how does PAM lock user out after account after multiple attempts or user haven’t logon after x amount of days?

[@John2009R]

Thanks. Very concise.
Also, this gem: "... now I can clear the screen with control and L". I've been using bash a long time and didn't know that one :)

[@theurbanpenguin]

thank you

[@pratikthite7413]

Love your content.. thank you for doing this ❤

[@theurbanpenguin]

Thank you

[@HumbleHuman-k7g]

Thanks for your job, really nice introduction in the GNU/Linux world.

[@theurbanpenguin]

Thank you

[@anestiskotidis3896]

Thanks for the video and the great intro to pam, I can confirm that in slackware the manual pages for pam modules are present, eg man pam_mkhomedir without the .so suffix. I imagine this is the case for the other linux systems too.

[@BrunoGallant]

Thanks for this. Did not know you could do that.

[@pbezunartea]

Great video, very informative! ... I'm curious, what's your take on Rocky Linux? Do you prefer AlmaLinux? if so, why?

[@theurbanpenguin]

I don't mind, I have no preference

[@pbezunartea]

@@theurbanpenguin thanks!

[@Kk-rl7nv]

Can you explain more about Pam modules

[@linuxman0]

I'm sorry for your loss.

[@theurbanpenguin]

Thank you Mike

[@chromerims]

Nice video 👍
Sorry for your loss.

[@theurbanpenguin]

Thanksyou

[@josegsuarez]

Hello. How can I use PAM for Rocky Linux? I need to use it for authentication of an FTP service against a Mysql database. I could do it for Debian, but I can't get the library for Rocky. Might you help me?

[@nenim4302]

Thank you. Awesome tutorial

[@MaskawathLatif]

you are great man.

[@lewisrobson9414]

Thanks for this, helped greatly

[@theurbanpenguin]

Brilliant, I am glad it helped

[@eltonferreira1214]

Thanks for the vídeo

[@theurbanpenguin]

Thanks for the comment

[@alwayskarbala]

I do not get. Home dir is automatically created when we make user.

[@theurbanpenguin]

Not if you use useradd -M or if you turn off in /etc/login.defs

[@AlejandroRodriguez-wt2mk]

Nice tutorial

[@evilthrei013]

That’s help me to understand PAM, reading the Linux “bible”

[@AliciaMarkoe]

Thank you 🦋

[@emanuelelauretta5344]

Thanks for sharing 😊

[@theurbanpenguin]

My pleasure 😊

[@sheenismhaellim2215]

on ubuntu 20.04 this module does not exist and i could not find it anywhere in the internet, atleast for ubuntu

[@theurbanpenguin]

/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/security/pam_mkhomedir.so

[@theurbanpenguin]

dpkg -S pam_mkhomedir.so
libpam-modules:amd64: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/security/pam_mkhomedir.so
This is okn my Ubuntu 20.04 system

[@zoeb-vora]

Lori is funny :D call it Dribble.

[@theurbanpenguin]

LOL

[@aacolive]

Dont talk about PAM in front of your GF. Linux is great but can "kill -9" your-relationship.