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Ramesh Mani commented on RANGER-842:
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[~bolke] Is "PAM" routine be the authentication method for Unix, why do we need
to add this in Ambari UI as one of the option?
Also how it will be if it Kerberos / SSL is configured?
> Use 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:
> 0001-Implements-ranger-admin-authentication-remote-and-na.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 This way of authenticating is somewhat outdated as any recent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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