[jira] [Commented] (RANGER-842) Allow PAM for authentication

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rangerqa commented on RANGER-842:
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{color:red}-1 overall{color}.  Here are the results of testing the latest attachment
  http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12817204/0003-RANGER-842-Fixed-Apache-License-Header-and-Added-add.patch
  against master revision 937e0ba.

    {color:red}-1 patch{color}.  The patch command could not apply the patch.

Console output: https://builds.apache.org/job/PreCommit-RANGER-Build/290//console

This message is automatically generated.

> Allow PAM for authentication
> ----------------------------
>
>                 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
>            Assignee: Selvamohan Neethiraj
>              Labels: authentication, security
>             Fix For: 0.6.0
>
>         Attachments: 0001-RANGER-842-This-patch-adds-PAM-auth-support-to-range.patch, 0002-RANGER-842-modified-to-create-a-separate-module-for-.patch, 0003-RANGER-842-Fixed-Apache-License-Header-and-Added-add.patch
>
>
> 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 This way of authenticating is somewhat outdated as any recent Linux system (and many of the BSDs) have PAM available.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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