pam-python is avaliable for openSUSE

Last week I came across pam_python, a PAM module that lets you write PAM modules in Python. It seems interesting to play in this direction, but I had to install it manually. It seems that there was no official packages for openSUSE until now…

Yesterday I built version 1.0.6 for Tumbleweed. Please test it. It’s in our security repo. Feel free to send submit requests.

After installing it we will get /lib64/security/pam_python.so PAM modul. It’s just an interface between PAM and your own plugin (that you have to implement). To test it, you will need to add PATH of your plugin to the /etc/pam.d/login file (in case of getty-access test, for example), like described here.

This code can be used as an example. It will close access for all getty.

> cat /lib64/security/access.py

def pam_sm_authenticate(pamh, flags, argv):
  if str(pamh.service) == "login":
    return pamh.PAM_AUTH_ERR

You will also need to add this line to the /etc/pam.d/login file:

auth required pam_python.so access.py

This is just an example with login service or getty. Pam-python supports also, for example, ssh- and kdm-services. It supports many other interesting things. For more info look at documentation page.