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

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

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Ramesh Mani edited comment on RANGER-842 at 7/11/16 10:21 PM:
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Commit the patches into Master.
https://git1-us-west.apache.org/repos/asf?p=incubator-ranger.git;a=commit;h=42d8db56
http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-ranger/commit/5ba4831f
http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-ranger/commit/b063a998


was (Author: rmani):
Commit the patch into Master.
https://git1-us-west.apache.org/repos/asf?p=incubator-ranger.git;a=commit;h=42d8db56
http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-ranger/commit/5ba4831f
http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-ranger/commit/b063a998

> 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 This way of authenticating is somewhat outdated as any recent Linux system (and many of the BSDs) have PAM available.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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