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This article provides information on configuring vmtoolsd to use a common authentication mechanism using PAM. It applies to open-vm-tools and VMware Tools (tar installer) and OSPs. The open-vm-tools packages shipped with Ubuntu and Debian do not need these modifications.The purpose is that an authentication mechanism is only configured in one place. For example if services running in the VM are configured to use LDAP for authentication, instead of changing the file /etc/pam.d/vmtoolsd to explicitly support LDAP, change the common files that are configured to use LDAP.
For CentOS 6 and RHEL 6, replace the file /etc/pam.d/vmtoolsd with:auth required pam_shells.soauth include password-authauth include postloginaccount required pam_nologin.soaccount include password-authFor CentOS 7 and 8 and RHEL 7 and 8, replace the file /etc/pam.d/vmtoolsd with:auth required pam_shells.soauth substack password-authauth include postloginaccount required pam_nologin.soaccount include password-authFor SLE 12 and 15, use:auth required pam_shells.soauth requisite pam_nologin.soauth include common-authaccount include common-account
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