Authenticating users via ldap through PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules).
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PAM is specified in agentparm.txt where the following entries have to be coded and the agent recycled:
After the changes agentparm.txt are done and the agent recycled one can manually test the authentication:
1. First get the encrypted password for your user using the password utility in the agent directory :
password <clear_userid_password>
2. Then use the following to check if the user can be authenticated (assuming that oscomponent.auth.pam.svc=login; change the service name accordingly if not):
chkusr user_name <encrypted_password> login