PAM on Ubuntu

this is the first time, i heard to use pam to restrict share from user!!

may be there is a way but i dont know ..

but why dont you use  , linux permission for that ??

if you can define accurate permission for user, groups and insert user into those groups, your pupose would be solved

have you tryed with that ??

You seem to be a bit confused. PAM is authentication pluggable tool not a tool to set permissions. What you are looking for is probably ACL (although the actual need to use ACLs is very rare, 99% cases can be solved with simple Unix access rights).

According to the documentation in login.defs, I do want to use PAM

# UMASK usage is discouraged because it catches only some classes of user
# entries to system, in fact only those made through login(1), while setting
# umask in shell rc file will catch also logins through su, cron, ssh etc.
#
# At the same time, using shell rc to set umask won't catch entries which use
# non-shell executables in place of login shell, like /usr/sbin/pppd for "ppp"
# user and alike.
#
# Therefore the use of pam_umask is recommended as the solution which
# catches all these cases on PAM-enabled systems.
#
# This avoids the confusion created by having the umask set
# in two different places -- in login.defs and shell rc files (i.e.
# /etc/profile).

from bellow, which line  makes you think that pum can crontall share ??

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According to the documentation in login.defs, I do want to use PAM

# UMASK usage is discouraged because it catches only some classes of user
# entries to system, in fact only those made through login(1), while setting
# umask in shell rc file will catch also logins through su, cron, ssh etc.
#
# At the same time, using shell rc to set umask won't catch entries which use
# non-shell executables in place of login shell, like /usr/sbin/pppd for "ppp"
# user and alike.
#
# Therefore the use of pam_umask is recommended as the solution which
# catches all these cases on PAM-enabled systems.
#
# This avoids the confusion created by having the umask set
# in two different places -- in login.defs and shell rc files (i.e.
# /etc/profile).


are you thiking of umask ??

This whole thread makes me think I should be using PAM:

http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=33979

Could you explain what you actually need help with? You don't know how to switch to PAM or you need help with UMASK?

According to the link above, you can centerally set umask using pam.  but when I try to install pam i.e. libpam_umask, it wants to remove the kernel from ubuntu.

So basically, I need help with setting up and installing pam in general.

Ok so its about umask, its nothign to do with pam

if you read that article, you will see, there is some section, tis said to use chmod command to restrict control

if you want to know about umask

http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/understanding-linux-unix-umask-value-usage.html

umask, is suppose , if you want want a system that , when a user will create a directory or file, it will be automaticaly set a certain permission, then you can setup umask . so it will apply with every file and directory

read that

yes, but according to that article, it seems you cannot set umask centerally without pam.  without pam you have to make changes in more than one config file.

yes, that is the problem i am having, it wants to remove the whole system...  ok so now I know it's in libpam_modules, I will try installing that and see if I can set umask centerally.