11) 210.2 PAM authentication

"It consists of a set of libraries and an API that can be used to perform authentication tasks"

• NIS

• PAM

• LDAP

• Kerberos

• Active Directory

What does PAM stand for?

• Protocol Authentication Module

• Pluggable Authentication Module

• Pluggable Authentication Mainframe

• Pluggable Authorization Module

Which are privilege-granting programs that use the PAM API? Choose all the correct answers.

• sudo

• login

• su

• passwd

• bash

Choose two sections or types in which the PAM is divided to:

• authorization

• accounts

• authentication

• users

Choose two sections or types in which the PAM is divided to:

• authorization

• password

• session

• users

"Provide account verification by checking the expiration date of the password and might force the user to change his password based on the content of /etc/shadow.

It could also asks for: has the user's password expired? / Is this user permitted access to the requested service?"

Which of the sections or types in which the PAM is divided to does the above statement refer to?

• authorization

• accounts

• authentication

• users

"It checks the user's password against the password database, and also could ask the user for the password"

Which of the sections or types in which the PAM is divided to does the above statement refer to?

• authorization

• accounts

• authentication

• users

"It uses policies to apply it to passwords. It allows to change user's passwords, allows empty passwords and remember the last "n" password to prevent the user from use one of the last"

Which of the sections or types in which the PAM is divided to does the above statement refer to?

• authorization

• password

• session

• users

"It covers things that should be done prior to a service being offered and after it is withdrawn. Such tasks include the maintenance of audit trails and mounting of the user's home directory"

Which of the sections or types in which the PAM is divided to does the above statement refer to?

• authorization

• password

• session

• users

"It's a record of all the actions and changes made to a system or process"

• Audit log

• Event log

• Audit trails

• Transaction log