Linux Account Security and PAM | Into the Terminal 119

Sometimes people leave your organization and you need to disable or delete their account. But you also have other types of account maintenance that has to happen like password resets. All of these Linux account and password activities sit on top of the Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) framework. PAM manages all types of authentication, account, password, and session activities. Being modular, you can install additional libraries to extend PAM to new authentication types or support additional devices and methods.

In this Into the Terminal, Scott and Nate will walk through some common account management tasks as well as an overview of PAM and installing and configuring new modules.

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Nate Lager:   / gangrif  
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Commands used:
usermod, mkpasswd, openssl, chage, umask,

Chapters
00:00 Stream start
00:15 Introduction
00:52 Locking an account
04:14 Password resets
10:41 Account Expiration
13:36 Welcome
14:51 Centralized Authentication
17:29 Pluggable Authentication Modules
30:57 Modifying PAM
46:56 Wrap up