authmgr8

Usage

Overview

authmgr is a client-side interface to the authentication daemon authsrv. It serves a purpose of convenience only, passing most of its commands directly over a network to authsrv. authmgr is useful if an administrator wishes to access the authentication server over a network, or wishes to encrypt the connection. All commands supported by authsrv are supported by authmgr with the same syntax, with the addition of a login [username] command that automates authentication to authsrv.

Options

authmgr takes no command line options, reading its configuration information from the firewall toolkit configuration file netperm-table(5) All configuration rules in netperm-table for application "authmgr" are read, and the following clauses and parameters are recognized:

authserver hostname [[port] key]

specifies the hostname or network address where the authentication server is running. If the optional port is specified, it is used as a numeric service port value. If the optional key is specified, all traffic with the server is DES-encrypted using the shared key. Keys must match between client and server.

If compiled-in values for authserver and port are provided, they will be used as a default, if there are none specified in netperm-table.

Installation

To install authmgr, configure the authserver option in netperm-table to contain the address of the authentication server system. Check connectivity by attempting to log in.

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