PAM Integration

For Yocto 1.1 we are working to ensure that PAM (Pluggable Authentication Module) support is consistent and enabled in recipes where it is applicable.

Recipes with PAM support

The following recipes were identified to have PAM support (some already implemented) on 2011-06-27:

• at

• consolekit

• cronie

• cups

• dropbear

• gnome-keyring

• mc

• openssh
  • Absent configuration /etc/pam.d/sshd, we need to add patches. After adding this file, it can supprot pam function through simple test.
• polkit

• screen

• shadow

• sudo

• util-linux

Note also:

• libcap: if pam exists, libcap will create a pam plugin pam_cap.so to add a new front end for the authentication function. Because it is not a application, remove it from list.
• libuser: pam is libuser's build dependency, so remove it too.
• The busybox box login has a option to use pam, but we use tinylogin's login right now (tinylogin also provides the su command)
• gettext has a example file use pam in source code, I think it is just a example and don't need care
• sysvinit has a patch contrib/notify-pam-dead.patch for /sbin/init to use pam , and it doesn't patched right now. And the package doesn't provide pam related configure option either.
• In xserver-xf86-lite source code subdir os/utils checks #ifdef USE_PAM but there are no configure-time options for PAM.

Identify upstream PAM patches to use

After checking the Fedora develop repository, the following packages may need patches(only libpam need to upgrade, other patches are pam related configure file):

• libpam: need update from current 1.1.3 to 1.1.4
• screen: check Fedora screen.pam
• util-linux: check Fedora source file util-linux-remote.pamd
• at: check Fedora util-linux-remote.pamd
• cups: check Fedora cups-1.1.16-system-auth.patch
• openssh: check Fedora sshd.pam

PAM Unit Tests

We use unit test cases provided by libpam itself, a subdirectory with name "xtests" under libpam source code.

On build machine run

 bitbake libpam -c patch

to get the libpam source code Linux-PAM-1.1.3, and scp it to host(target) machine.

On the target machine under Linux-PAM-1.1.3, run

 ./configure
 make xtests

will get the test result of 28 unit test case. If you want to run sigle test case, go to subdirectory xtests and run (take tst-pam_time1 for example)

 ./run-xtests.sh . tst-pam_time1

Some unit test can NOT pass(15/28), they need some pam plugin libraies:

• tst-pam_access1
• tst-pam_access2
• tst-pam_access3
• tst-pam_access4
  • the tst-pam_access test cases need pam_access.so, install package pam-plugin-access will make them pass the test
• tst-pam_authsucceed
  • need pam_debug.so, install pam-plugin-debug to make it pass

• tst-pam_cracklib1
• tst-pam_cracklib2
  • need /lib/security/pam_cracklib.so, need figure out why pam doesn't create pam-plugin-cracklib

• tst-pam_dispatch1
• tst-pam_dispatch2
• tst-pam_dispatch3
• tst-pam_dispatch4
  • need pam_debug.so, install pam-plugin-debug to make tst-pam_dispatch pass

• tst-pam_pwhistory1
  • need /lib/security/pam_pwhistory.so, install pam-plugin-pwhistory to make it pass

• tst-pam_substack2
  • need pam_debug.so, install pam-plugin-debug to make tst-pam_dispatch pass

• tst-pam_succeed_if1
  • install pam-plugin-succeed-if to make it pass

• tst-pam_time1
  • install pam-plugin-time to make it pass