yubico-pam/README

#summary Installation and configuration of the Yubico PAM module
#labels Featured,Phase-Deploy

= Yubico PAM module =

The Yubico PAM module provides an easy way to integrate the Yubikey
into your existing user authentication infrastructure.  PAM is used by
GNU/Linux, Solaris and Mac OS X for user authentication, and by other
specialized applications such as NCSA !MyProxy.

== Status and Roadmap ==

The module is working for multi-user systems.  It does not support
disconnected mode, for that there is another Yubico PAM module that
uses the AES key.

The development community is co-ordinated via Google Code:

  http://code.google.com/p/yubico-pam/

The license for pam_yubico is the 2-clause BSD license, which is
compatible with the Linux-PAM BSD/GPL license.  See the file COPYING
for more information.

== Building from SVN ==

Skip to the next section if you are using an official packaged
version.

You may check out the sources using SVN with the following command:

{{{
  svn checkout http://yubico-pam.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ yubico-pam
}}}

This will create a directory 'yubico-pam'.  Enter the directory:

{{{
  cd yubico-pam
}}}

Autoconf, automake and libtool must be installed.

Generate the build system using:

{{{
  autoreconf --install
}}}

== Building ==

You will need to have libykclient (ykclient.h, libykclient.so) and
libpam-dev (security/pam_appl.h, libpam.so) installed.  Get the
ykclient library from:

http://code.google.com/p/yubico-c-client/

It in turn requires Curl, which you need to have installed.

The build system uses Autoconf, to set up the build system run:

{{{
  ./configure
}}}

Use --without-ldap to disable ldap support.

Then build the code, run the self-test and install the binaries:

{{{
  make check install
}}}

== Configuration ==

Install it in your PAM setup by adding a line to an appropriate file
in /etc/pam.d/:

{{{
  auth sufficient pam_yubico.so id=16 debug
}}}

and move pam_yubico.so into /lib/security/:

{{{
  mv /usr/local/lib/security/pam_yubico.so /lib/security/
}}}

For more information, see the project Wiki page.

Supported PAM module parameters are:

{{{
  "id":         to indicate your client identity,
  "debug":      to enable debug output to stdout,
  "alwaysok":   to enable that all authentication attempts should succeed
                (aka presentation mode).

  "try_first_pass":
           Before prompting the user for their password, the module first
           tries the previous stacked module´s password in case that satisfies
           this module as well.

  "use_first_pass":
           The argument use_first_pass forces the module to use a previous
           stacked modules password and will never prompt the user - if no
           password is available or the password is not appropriate, the user
           will be denied access.

  "url":        specify the URL template to use, this is set by calling
                yubikey_client_set_url_template, which uses by default:
	        http://api.yubico.com/wsapi/verify?id=%d&otp=%s
  "ldapserver": specifiy the ldap server host (default ldap port is used)
  "ldapdn":     specify the dn where the users are stored (eg: ou=users,dc=domain,dc=com)
  "user_attr":  specify the attribute used to store usernames (eg:cn)
  "yubi_attr":  specify the attribute used to store the yubikey id
}}}

If you are using "debug" you may find it useful to create a
world-writable log file:

{{{
  touch /var/run/pam-debug.log 
  chmod go+w /var/run/pam-debug.log 
}}}

== Examples ==

If you want to use the Yubikey to authenticate you on linux console
logins, add the following to the top of /etc/pam.d/login:

{{{
auth sufficient pam_yubico.so id=16 debug
}}}

== Feedback ==

If you want to discuss anything related to the Yubico PAM module,
please contact Simon Josefsson <simon@yubico.com>.