[jira] [Issue Comment Deleted] (RANGER-842) Allow PAM for authentication

["Ramesh Mani (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Ramesh Mani updated RANGER-842:
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    Comment: was deleted

(was: @Yan We are adding the fall back functionality to configure the normal way if ranger PAM configuration is not there.  Soon will merge this patch)

> Allow PAM for authentication
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>
>                 Key: RANGER-842
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RANGER-842
>             Project: Ranger
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: admin
>    Affects Versions: 0.5.1, 0.6.0
>            Reporter: Bolke de Bruin
>              Labels: authentication, security
>             Fix For: 0.5.1, 0.6.0
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>         Attachments: 0002-RANGER-842-pam-authentication.patch
>
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> Ranger currently uses shadow based authentication if configured for unix authentication. This way of authenticating is somewhat outdated as any recent Linux system (and many of the BSDs) have PAM available. PAM allows multiple authentication sources and also does authorization.
> Ranger should be able to use PAM for authentication



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