Your submission was sent successfully! Close

Thank you for contacting us. A member of our team will be in touch shortly. Close

You have successfully unsubscribed! Close

Thank you for signing up for our newsletter!
In these regular emails you will find the latest updates about Ubuntu and upcoming events where you can meet our team.Close

How to enable PAM authentication

If you want to use Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) to authenticate users in your self-hosted Landscape server, you must create the file /etc/pam.d/landscape with the appropriate PAM configuration.

The simplest possible file is:

#%PAM-1.0
auth required pam_ldap.so
account required pam_ldap.so

Once these are in place, restart Landscape Server and it should be possible to login to the Landscape dashboard with your NID credentials. Additional administrators can be added via email.

If you use PAM to authenticate, the user details stored in Landscape are associated with the PAM identity supplied. PAM authentication has been tested against an LDAP server running on Ubuntu, and also with Active Directory running on Windows.

For more information on PAM authentication see PAM Tutorial.

This page was last modified 2 months ago. Help improve this document in the forum.