[RANGER-842] Allow PAM for authentication

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.5.1, 0.6.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.6.0
• Component/s: admin
• Labels: authentication security
• Flags: Patch
• Assignee: Selvamohan Neethiraj
• Reporter: Bolke de Bruin
• Created: 10/Feb/16 13:33
• Updated: 17/Aug/16 16:41
• Resolved: 11/Jul/16 22:21

Description

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 This way of authenticating is somewhat outdated as any recent Linux system (and many of the BSDs) have PAM available.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