PAM NTLM ( NT Lan Manager) is a Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM)
that enables HP-UX users to be authenticated against Windows servers
during system login.
PAM is an authentication framework in UNIX, used to authenticate users
logging into a UNIX system. PAM loads a dynamically loadable module
(shared library) that performs the actual authentication. PAM can
also be configured to use multiple shared library modules.
PAM NTLM uses NT servers to authenticate users logging into
an HP-UX system. In other words, PAM NTLM uses the NT LanManager protocol
to authenticate the UNIX users. It sends the UNIX user’s
name and password to the NT server for validation and returns the
result to the PAM framework. The HP CIFS client uses the PAM NTLM authentication
information to access the shares on the HP CIFS server. Thus, users
logging into an HP-UX system can access CIFS-mounted file systems
without having to use the cifslogin command.
Configuring PAM NTLM requires you to understand the PAM framework
in general. Refer to pam(3), pam.conf(4),
and Managing Systems and Workgroups at
http://docs.hp.com/hpux/os for more information about PAM.
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