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diff --git a/openvpn/plugin/auth-pam/README b/openvpn/plugin/auth-pam/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c957c02 --- /dev/null +++ b/openvpn/plugin/auth-pam/README @@ -0,0 +1,74 @@ +openvpn-auth-pam + +SYNOPSIS + +The openvpn-auth-pam module implements username/password +authentication via PAM, and essentially allows any authentication +method supported by PAM (such as LDAP, RADIUS, or Linux Shadow +passwords) to be used with OpenVPN. While PAM supports +username/password authentication, this can be combined with X509 +certificates to provide two indepedent levels of authentication. + +This module uses a split privilege execution model which will +function even if you drop openvpn daemon privileges using the user, +group, or chroot directives. + +BUILD + +To build openvpn-auth-pam, you will need to have the pam-devel +package installed. + +Build with the "make" command. The module will be named +openvpn-auth-pam.so + +USAGE + +To use this plugin module, add to your OpenVPN config file: + + plugin openvpn-auth-pam.so service-type + +The required service-type parameter corresponds to +the PAM service definition file usually found +in /etc/pam.d. + +This plugin also supports the usage of a list of name/value +pairs to answer PAM module queries. + +For example: + + plugin openvpn-auth-pam.so "login login USERNAME password PASSWORD" + +tells auth-pam to (a) use the "login" PAM module, (b) answer a +"login" query with the username given by the OpenVPN client, and +(c) answer a "password" query with the password given by the +OpenVPN client. This provides flexibility in dealing with the different +types of query strings which different PAM modules might generate. +For example, suppose you were using a PAM module called +"test" which queried for "name" rather than "login": + + plugin openvpn-auth-pam.so "test name USERNAME password PASSWORD" + +While "USERNAME" and "PASSWORD" are special strings which substitute +to client-supplied values, it is also possible to name literal values +to use as PAM module query responses. For example, suppose that the +login module queried for a third parameter, "domain" which +is to be answered with the constant value "mydomain.com": + + plugin openvpn-auth-pam.so "login login USERNAME password PASSWORD domain mydomain.com" + +The following OpenVPN directives can also influence +the operation of this plugin: + + client-cert-not-required + username-as-common-name + +Run OpenVPN with --verb 7 or higher to get debugging output from +this plugin, including the list of queries presented by the +underlying PAM module. This is a useful debugging tool to figure +out which queries a given PAM module is making, so that you can +craft the appropriate plugin directive to answer it. + +CAVEATS + +This module will only work on *nix systems which support PAM, +not Windows. |