PAM module for user authentication using OAuth 2.0 Device Authorization Grant.
The following instructions have been tested on Ubuntu 20.04.
Install build dependencies.
sudo apt install libldap2-dev libpam0g-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev
Clone the repository, build and install the module.
make
sudo mkdir /lib/security
sudo cp pam_oauth2_device.so /lib/security/
Create a configuration file /etc/pam_oauth2_device/config.json
.
See config_template.json
(LDAP section is optional).
Edit /etc/pam_oauth2_device/config.json
.
qr
QR code encodes the authentication URL.show
: show (true
, default) or hide (false
) the QR codeerror_correction_level
: allowed correction levels are- 0 - low
- 1 - medium
- 2 - high
users
User mapping from claim configured in username_attribute to the local account name.oauth
configuration for the OIDC identity provider.require_mfa
: iftrue
the module will modify the requests to ask user to perform the MFA.
Edit /etc/pam.d/sshd
. Enable pam_oauth2_device.so
and disable password
authentication.
auth required pam_oauth2_device.so /etc/pam_oauth2_device/config.json
# Standard Un*x authentication.
# @include common-auth
Edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config
PasswordAuthentication no
ChallengeResponseAuthentication yes
AuthenticationMethods keyboard-interactive
UsePAM yes
It is also possible to combine multiple authentication methods. For example,
with AuthenticationMethods publickey,keyboard-interactive
both public key and interactive authentication are required.
For service users, an interactive method might not be desirable. Specify alternative authentication methods for selected users.
Match User ubuntu
AuthenticationMethods publickey
Restart the service after changing the sshd configuration.
systemctl restart sshd
For local development it is easier to use pamtester
.
sudo apt install pamtester
Edit /etc/pam.d/pamtester
auth required pam_oauth2_device.so
sudo cp pam_oauth2_device.so /lib/security/
# or make a symlink so you don't need to copy the file each
# time you compile the module
sudo ln -s pam_oauth2_device.so /lib/security/
pamtester -v pamtester username authenticate
In this project we automatically generate releases and update the changelog (for more information see, this github action). For this reason commit messages need to follow the Conventional Commits specification.
To improve both code quality and consistency, every commit needs to pass
linter and formatter checks. Please follow the
Google C++ style guide.
You can use clang-format
to automatically format your code.
Formatter can be integrated with most IDEs or used from CLI, e.g.
clang-format --style Google -i src/pam_oauth2_device.cpp
You can run linter (cpplint
) locally with cpplint src/* src/include/*
.
cpplint
is a Python tool and can be pip installed pip install cpplint
Make sure that unit tests are passing, see test/README.md. Add new tests if necessary.
The code has been reviewed for security vulnerabilities at the University of Basel and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics by Louis Ruppert and Aurélien Cavelan.