Configuring a Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM)

If you selected the Native OS authentication option during installation, perform additional configuration to allow login using accounts on the host system.

  1. Using a login account with root privileges, configure the pluggable authentication module for your platform:
    Platform Action
    Solaris Append the contents of the <Install-dir>/ESP-5_1/security/pam/pam.conf file (provided with Event Stream Processor) to the /etc/pam.conf file on your Solaris platform.
    Note: In the table above, the portion of the path that indicates the operating system might differ slightly from what is shown.
  2. If the host UNIX system is not using a directory lookup for authentication (yp or NIS, for example) and authentication is carried out against the local /etc/passwd file, any user account that executes Event Stream Processor requires read access to /etc/shadow. To provide this access, use the usermod command to add the applicable user accounts to the shadow group. For example, for user account User_123 use: usermod -G shadow User_123