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Yujie Li commented on RANGER-842:
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I have been testing this patch and it's built successfully.
But have one question regarding the testing. I am currently building the source
with the patch into RPMs and install Ranger using Ambari web interface. During
the installation, I still don't see a new option as "PAM" next to other
authentication methods so I chose UNIX instead. Isn't this patch supposed to
add a new option regarding authentication methods? In this way, how can I test
the PAM function? Can I manually change the method to PAM after the
installation?
> Allow 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
> Assignee: Selvamohan Neethiraj
> Labels: authentication, security
> Fix For: 0.6.0
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> Attachments: 0002-RANGER-842-pam-authentication.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 This way of authenticating is somewhat outdated as any recent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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