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While designed primarily for the .Xr login 1 program, it is also used by other programs, e.g., .Xr ftpd 8 , to determine what means of authentication are available. It is also used by programs, e.g., .Xr rshd 8 , which need to set up a user environment. .Pp A special record, .Dq default , in .Pa /etc/login.conf is used for any user without a valid login class in .Pa /etc/master.passwd . .Pp Sites with very large .Pa /etc/login.conf files may wish to create a database version of the file, .Pa /etc/login.conf.db , for improved performance. Using a database version for spall files does not result in a performance improvement. To build .Pa /etc/login.conf.db from .Pa /etc/login.conf the following command may be used: .Dl # cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf Note that .Xr cap_mkdb 1 must be run after each edit of .Pa /etc/login.conf to keep the database version in sync with the plain file. .Sh CAPABILITIES Refer to .Xr getcap 3 for a description of the file layout. All entries in the .Nm file are either boolean or use a .Ql = to separate the capability from the value. The types are described after the capability table. .Bl -column alwaysuseklogin program xetcxmotd .Sy Name Type Default Description .\" .It alwaysuseklogin Ta bool Ta Dv false Ta Always check the .Pa .klogin file for kerberos style authentication. Normally this file is only checked if a non-null kerberos instance is provided (e.g., .Li user.root ) . .\" .sp .It approve Ta program Ta "" Ta Default program to approve login. .\" .sp .It approve- Ns Ar service Ta program Ta "" Ta Program to approve login for .Ar service . .\" .sp .It auth Ta list Ta Dv passwd Ta Allowed authentication styles. The first value is the default styles. .\" .sp .It auth- Ns Ar type Ta list Ta "" Ta Allowed authentication styles for the authentication type .Ar type . .\" .sp .It classify Ta program Ta "" Ta Classify type of login. .\" .sp .It copyright Ta file Ta "" Ta File containing additional copyright information. .\" .sp .It coredumpsize Ta size Ta "" Ta Maximum coredump size limit. .\" .sp .It cputime Ta time Ta "" Ta CPU usage limit. .\" .sp .It datasize Ta size Ta "" Ta Maximum data size limit. .\" .sp .It expire-warn Ta time Ta Dv 2w Ta If the user's account will expire within this length of time then warn the user of this. .\" .sp .It filesize Ta size Ta "" Ta Maximum file size limit. .\" .sp .It hushlogin Ta bool Ta Dv false Ta Same as having a .Pa $HOME/.hushlogin file. See .Xr login 1 . .\" .sp .It ignorenologin Ta bool Ta Dv false Ta Not affected by .Pa nologin files. See .Xr login 1 . .\" .sp .It localcipher Ta string Ta old Ta The cipher to use for local passwords. Possible values are: .Dq old , .Dq newsalt, , .Dq md5 , and .Dq blowfish, where .Dq old means classic 56-bit DES. For .Dq newsalt the value of rounds is a 24-bit integer with a minimum of 7250 rounds. For .Dq blowfish the value can be between 4 and 31. It specifies the base 2 logarithm of the number of rounds. .\" .sp .It ypcipher Ta string Ta old Ta The cipher to use for YP passwords. The possible values are the same as for .Ar localcipher . .\" .sp .It login-backoff Ta number Ta 3 Ta After .Ar login-backoff unsuccessful login attempts during a single session, .Xr login 1 will start sleeping a bit in between attempts. .\" .sp .It login-timeout Ta time Ta 300 Ta Number of seconds before .Xr login 1 times out at the password prompt. Note that this setting is only valid for the .Li default record. .\" .sp .It login-tries Ta number Ta 10 Ta Number of tries a user gets to successfully login before .Xr login 1 closes the connection. .\" .sp .It stacksize Ta size Ta "" Ta Maximum stack size limit. .\" .sp .It maxproc Ta number Ta "" Ta Maximum number of processes. .\" .sp .It memorylocked Ta size Ta "" Ta Maximum locked in core memory size limit. .\" .sp .It memoryuse Ta size Ta "" Ta Maximum in core memoryuse size limit. .\" .sp .It minpasswordlen Ta number Ta 6 Ta The minimum length a local password may be. If a negative value or zero, no length restrictions are enforced. Used by the .Xr passwd 1 utility. .\" .sp .It nologin Ta file Ta "" Ta If the file exists it will be displayed and the login session will be terminated. .\" .sp .It openfiles Ta number Ta "" Ta Maximum number of open files per process. .\" .sp .It password-dead Ta time Ta Dv 0 Ta Length of time a password may be expired but not quite dead yet. When set (for both the client and remote server machine when doing remote authentication), a user is allowed to log in just one more time after their password (but not account) has expired. This allows a grace period for updating their password. .\" .sp .It password-warn Ta time Ta Dv 2w Ta If the user's password will expire within this length of time then warn the user of this. .\" .sp .It passwordcheck Ta path Ta "" Ta An external program that checks the quality of the password. The password is passed to the program on .Pa stdin . An exit code of 0 indicates that the quality of the password is sufficient, an exit code of 1 signals that the password failed the check. .\" .sp .It passwordtime Ta time Ta "" Ta The lifetime of a password in seconds, reset every time a user changes their password. When this value is exceeded the user will no longer be able to login unless the .Li password-dead option has been specified. Used by the .Xr passwd 1 utility. .\" .sp .It passwordtries Ta number Ta 3 Ta The number of times the .Xr passwd 1 utility enforces a check on the password. If 0, the new password will only be accepted if it passes the password quality check. .\" .sp .It path Ta path Ta Dv "value of _PATH_DEFPATH" Ta .br Default search path. See .Pa /usr/include/paths.h . .\" .sp .It priority Ta number Ta "" Ta Initial priority (nice) level. .\" .sp .It requirehome Ta bool Ta Dv false Ta Require home directory to login. .\" .sp .It shell Ta program Ta "" Ta Session shell to execute rather than the shell specified in the password file. The .Ev SHELL environment variable will contain the shell specified in the password file. .\" .sp .It term Ta string Ta Dv su Ta Default terminal type if not able to determine from other means. .\" .sp .It umask Ta number Ta Dv 022 Ta Initial umask. Should always have a leading .Li 0 to ensure octal interpretation. See .Xr umask 2 . .\" .sp .It welcome Ta file Ta Pa /etc/motd Ta File containing welcome message. .El .Pp The resource limit entries .No ( Ns Va cputime , filesize , datasize , stacksize , coredumpsize , .Va memoryuse , memorylocked , maxproc , and .Va openfiles ) actually specify both the maximum and current limits (see .Xr getrlimit 2 ) . The current limit is the one normally used, although the user is permitted to increase the current limit to the maximum limit. The maximum and current limits may be specified individually by appending a .Va \-max or .Va \-cur to the capability name (e.g., .Va openfiles-max and .Va openfiles-cur Ns No ). .Pp \*(oSwill never define capabilities which start with .Li x- or .Li X- , these are reserved for external use (unless included through contributed software). .Pp The argument types are defined as: .Bl -tag -width programxx .\" .It file Path name to a text file. .\" .It list A comma separated list of values. .\" .It number A number. A leading .Li 0x implies the number is expressed in hexadecimal. A leading .Li 0 implies the number is expressed in octal. Any other number is treated as decimal. .\" .It path A space separated list of path names. If a .Li ~ is the first character in the path name, the .Li ~ is expanded to the user's home directory. .\" .It program A path name to program. .\" .It size A .Va number which expresses a size in bytes. It may have a trailing .Li b to multiply the value by 512, a .Li k to multiply the value by 1 K (1024), and a .Li m to multiply the value by 1 M (1048576). .\" .It time A time in seconds. A time may be expressed as a series of numbers which are added together. Each number may have a trailing character to represent time units: .Bl -tag -width xxx .\" .It y Indicates a number of 365 day years. .\" .It w Indicates a number of 7 day weeks. .\" .It d Indicates a number of 24 hour days. .\" .It h Indicates a number of 60 minute hours. .\" .It m Indicates a number of 60 second minutes. .\" .It s Indicates a number of seconds. .El .Pp For example, to indicate 1 and 1/2 hours, the following string could be used: .Li 1h30m . .El .\" .Sh AUTHENTICATION \*(oSuses BSD Authentication, which is made up of a variety of authentication styles. The authentication styles currently provided are: .Bl -tag -width kerberosxx .\" .It Li activ Authenticate using an ActivCard token. See .Xr login_activ 8 . .\" .It Li chpass Change user's password. See .Xr login_chpass 8 . .\" .It Li crypto Authenticate using a CRYPTOCard token. See .Xr login_crypto 8 . .\" .It Li krb4 Request a password and use it to request a ticket from the kerberos 4 server. See .Xr kerberos 1 . .\" .It Li krb4-or-pwd Request a password and first try the .Li krb4 authentication style and if that fails use the same password with the .Li passwd authentication style. See .Xr kerberos 1 . .\" .It Li krb5 Request a password and use it to request a ticket from the kerberos 5 server. See .Xr kerberos 1 . .\" .It Li krb5-or-pwd Request a password and first try the .Li krb5 authentication style and if that fails use the same password with the .Li passwd authentication style. See .Xr kerberos 1 . .\" .It Li lchpass Change user's local password. See .Xr login_chpass 8 . .\" .It Li passwd Request a password and check it against the password in the master.passwd file. .\" .It Li radius Normally linked to another authentication type, contact the radius server to do authentication. See .Xr login_radius 8 . .\" .It Li reject Request a password and reject any request. See .Xr login_reject 8 . .\" .It Li rpasswd Request a password and check it against the password in the rpasswd.db file. .\" .It Li skey Send a challenge and request a response, checking it with S/Key (tm) authentication. See .Xr skey 1 . .\" .It Li snk Authenticate using a SecureNet Key token. See .Xr login_snk 8 . .\" .It Li token Authenticate using a generic X9.9 token. See .Xr login_token 8 . .El .Pp Local authentication styles may be added by creating a login script for the style (see below). To prevent collisions with future official BSD Authentication style names all local style names should start with a dash (-). Current plans are for all official BSD Authentication style names to begin with a lower case alphabetic character. For example, if you have a new style you refer to as .Li slick then you should create an authentication script named .Pa /usr/libexec/auth/login_-slick using the style name .Li -slick . When logging in via the .Xr login 1 program, the syntax .Ar user Ns Li :-slick would be used. .Pp Authentication requires several pieces of information: .Bl -tag -width kerberosxx .\" .It Ar class The login class being used. .It Ar service The type of service requesting authentication. The service type is used to determine what information the authentication program can provide to the user and what information the user can provide to the authentication program. .Pp The service type .Li login is appropriate for most situations. Two other service types, .Li challenge and .Li response , are provided for use by programs like .Xr ftpd 8 and .Xr radiusd . If no service type is specified, .Li login is used. .It Ar style The authentication style being used. .It Ar type The authentication type, used to determine the available authentication styles. .It Ar username The name of the user to authenticate. The name may contain an instance, e.g. .Dq user.root , as used by Kerberos authentication. If the authentication style being used does not support such instances, the request will fail. .El .Pp The program requesting authentication must specify a username and an authentication style. (For example, .Xr login 1 requests a username from the user. Users may enter usernames of the form .Dq user:style to optionally specify the authentication style.) The requesting program may also specify the type of authentication that will be done. Most programs will only have a single type, if any at all, i.e., .Xr ftpd 8 will always request the .Li ftp type authentication, and .Xr su 1 will always request the .Li su type authentication. The .Xr login 1 utility is special in that it may select an authentication type based on information found in the .Pa /etc/ttys file for the appropriate tty (see .Xr ttys 5 ) . .Pp The class to be used is normally determined by the .Li class field in the password file (see .Xr passwd 5 ) . .Pp The class is used to look up a corresponding entry in the .Pa login.conf file. If an authentication type is defined and a value for .Li auth- Ns Ar type exists in that entry, it will be used as a list of potential authentication styles. If an authentication type is not defined, or .Li auth- Ns Ar type is not specified for the class, the value of .Li auth is used as the list of available authentication styles. .Pp If the user did not specify an authentication style the first style in the list of available styles is used. If the user did specify an authentication style and the style is in the list of available styles it will be used, otherwise the request is rejected. .Pp For any given style, the program .Pa /usr/libexec/auth/login_ Ns Va style is used to perform the authentication. The synopsis of this program is: .sp .ti +.5i .Li /usr/libexec/auth/login_ Ns Va style .Op Fl v Va name=value .Op Fl s Va service .Va username class .sp The .Fl v option is used to specify arbitrary information to the authentication programs. Any number of .Fl v options may be used. The .Xr login 1 program provides the following through the .Fl v option: .Bl -tag -width remote_addrxxx .It Li auth_type The type of authentication to use. .It Li fqdn The hostname provided to login by the .Fl h option. .It Li hostname The name .Xr login 1 will place in the utmp file for the remote hostname. .It Li local_addr The local IP address given to .Xr login 1 by the .Fl L option. .It Li lastchance Set to .Dq yes when a user's password has expired but the user is being given one last chance to login and update the password. .It Li login This is a new login session (as opposed to a simple identity check). .It Li remote_addr The remote IP address given to .Xr login 1 by the .Fl R option. .It Li style The style of authentication used for this user (see approval scripts below). .El .Pp The .Xr su 1 program provides the following through the .Fl v option: .Bl -tag -width remote_addrxxx .It Li invokinguser Set to the name of the user being authenticated; used for Kerberos authentication. .It Li wheel Set to either .Dq yes or .Dq no to indicate if the user is in group wheel when they are trying to become root. Some authentication types require the user to be in group wheel when using the .Xr su 1 program to become super user. .El .Pp When the authentication program is executed, the environment will only contain the values .Ev PATH=/bin:/usr/bin and .Ev SHELL=/bin/sh . File descriptor 3 will be open for reading and writing. The authentication program should write one or more of the following strings to this file descriptor: .Bl -tag -width authorize .\" .It Li authorize The user has been authorized. .\" .It Li authorize secure The user has been authorized and root should be allowed to login even if this is not a secure terminal. This should only be sent by authentication styles that are secure over insecure lines. .\" .It Li reject Authorization is rejected. This overrides any indication that the user was authorized (though one would question the wisdom in sending both a .Va reject and an .Va authorize command). .\" .It Li reject challenge Authorization was rejected and a challenge has been made available via the value .Li challenge . .\" .It Li reject silent Authorization is rejected, but no error messages should be generated. .\" .It Li remove Va file If the login session fails for any reason, remove .Va file before termination (a kerberos ticket file, for example). .\" .It Li setenv Va name Va value If the login session succeeds, the environment variable .Va name should be set to the specified .Va value . .\" .It Li unsetenv Va name If the login session succeeds, the environment variable .Va name should be removed. .\" .It Li value Va name Va value Set the internal variable .Va name to the specified .Va value . The .Va value should only contain printable characters. Several \e sequences may be used to introduce non printing characters. These are: .Bl -tag -width indent .It Li \en A newline. .It Li \er A carriage return. .It Li \et A tab. .It Li \e Ns Va xxx The character represented by the octal value .Va xxx . The value may be one, two, or three octal digits. .It Li \e Ns Va c The string is replaced by the value of .Va c . This allows quoting an initial space or the \\ character itself. .El .Pp The following values are currently defined: .Bl -tag -width indent .It Li challenge See section on challenges below. .It Li errormsg If set, the value is the reason authentication failed. The calling program may choose to display this when rejecting the user, but display is not required. .El .El .Pp In order for authentication to be successful, the authentication program must exit with a value of 0 as well as provide an .Li authorize or .Li "authorize root" statement on file descriptor 3. .Pp An authentication program must not assume it will be called as root, nor must it assume it will not be called as root. If it needs special permissions to access files it should be setuid or setgid to the appropriate user/group. See .Xr chmod 1 . .Sh CHALLENGES When an authentication program is called with a service of .Li challenge it should do one of three things: .Pp If this style of authentication supports challenge response it should set the internal variable .Li challenge to be the appropriate challenge for the user. This is done by the .Li value command listed above. The program should also issue a .Li reject challenge and then exit with a 0 status. See the section on responses below. .Pp If this style of authentication does not support challenge response, but does support the .Li response service (described below) it should issue .Li reject silent and then exit with a 0 status. .Pp If this style of authentication does not support the .Li response service it should simply fail, complaining about an unknown service type. It should exit with a non-zero status. .Sh RESPONSES When an authentication program is called with a service of .Li response , and this style supports this mode of authentication, it should read two null terminated strings from file descriptor 3. The first string is a challenge that was issued to the user (obtained from the .Li challenge service above). The second string is the response the user gave (i.e., the password). If the response is correct for the specified challenge, the authentication should be accepted, else it should be rejected. It is possible for the challenge to be any empty string, which implies the calling program did first obtain a challenge prior to getting a response from the user. Not all authentication styles support empty challenges. .Sh APPROVAL An approval program has the synopsis of: .sp .ti +.5i .Va approve .Op Fl v Ar name=value .Va username class service .Pp Just as with an authentication program, file descriptor 3 will be open for writing when the approval program is executed. The .Fl v option is the same as in the authentication program. Unlike an authentication program, the approval program need not explicitly send an .Li authorize or .Li "authorize root" statement, it only need exit with a value of 0 or non-zero. An exit value of 0 is equivalent to an .Li authorize statement, and non-zero to a .Li reject statement. This allows for simple programs which have no information to provide other than approval or denial. .Sh CLASSIFICATION A classify program has the synopsis of: .sp .ti +.5i .Va classify .Op Fl v Ar name=value .Op Fl f .Op user .Pp See .Xr login 1 for a description of the .Fl f , option. The .Fl v option is the same as for the authentication programs. The .Va user is the username passed to .Xr login 1 login, if any. .Pp The typical job of the classify program is to determine what authentication type should actually be used, presumably based on the remote IP address. It might also re-specify the hostname to be included in the .Xr utmp 5 file, reject the login attempt outright, or even print an additional login banner (e.g., .Pa /etc/issue ) . .Pp The classify entry is only valid for the .Li default class as it is used prior to knowing who the user is. The classify script may pass environment variables or other commands back to .Xr login 1 on file descriptor 3, just as an authentication program does. The two variables .Nm AUTH_TYPE and .Nm REMOTE_NAME are used to specify a new authentication type (the type must have the form .Li auth- Ns Ar type ) and override the .Fl h option to login, respectively. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr cap_mkdb 1 , .Xr login 1 , .Xr authenticate 3 , .Xr bsd_auth 3 , .Xr getcap 3 , .Xr login_cap 3 , .Xr passwd 5 , .Xr ttys 5 , .Xr ftpd 8