pam_unixsock is PAM module to send credentials to a unix socket. See pam_unixsock.8.md for more information.
In go/pamserve you'll find a skeleton Go server that listen on the unix socket and echos back an
OK.
- The LibPAM development headers (libpam-dev or libpam0g-dev)
- A PAM-based system (currently only tested on Linux)
make clean
make all
And then copy it to:
cp pam_unixsock.so /lib/security
Or for Ubuntu
cp pam_unixsock.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/security
Create a fake pam service called unixsock:
% cat /etc/pam.d/unixsock
#%PAM-1.0
auth required pam_unixsock.so
Open a reader on the socket:
# nc -lU /var/run/pam_unix.sock
Use pamtester to authenticate yourself; you can just use a fake password here.
% sudo pamtester unixsock $USER authenticate
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