Overview

Moonshot-enabling the Linux console is achieved through the use of a PAM module.

Compatibility

Key

In the tables below, the following icons have the following meanings:

•  - This version of the software has been tested and verified as supporting Moonshot.
•  - This version of the software has been tested and verified as not supporting Moonshot.
•  - This version of the software has not yet been tested thoroughly and its status is not known. Let us know if you have tried it and whether it worked or not!

Compatibility List

Installation & Configuration

 How you set up a Moonshot-enabled version of the Linux Console will differ depending on your OS. See the relevant pages for your particular distribution:

• CentOS 6
• RHEL 6
• Scientific Linux 6

Next Steps

Account Mapping

Mapping to an account specified in a SAML attribute

Moonshot uses Shibboleth libraries to parse RADIUS and SAML attributes - SAML assertions can be embedded inside RADIUS responses by the IdP, allowing an IdP to exercise a very fine-grained authorisation policy. One potential use of this is to allow the Moonshot IdP to specify which account the user should log in to your SSH server as. To do this, it passes across a username in a SAML attribute and your server maps that to a local user account (via local-login-user).

1. Edit /etc/shibboleth/shibboleth2.xml and insert the following lines if they don't exist (note that this should go directly after the opening <SPConfig ... clockSkew="180"> stanza:

   true

2. Edit /etc/shibboleth/attribute-map.xml and find the SAML attribute that the Moonshot IdP will be sending you that contains the username.

   Example

   We want to map from the incoming SAML2 representation of "eduPersonEntitlement"

3. Change the id of the attribute to "local-login-user".

   Example

   We change the attribute defining the SAML2 representation of "eduPersonEntitlement" such that its id becomes "local-login-user"

   In the standard Moonshot distribution, SSH will look for local-login-user to determine who to authenticate the user as. This attribute mapping will be managed by the XML assertion in the FreeRADIUS reply for a successful authentication.

Further mapping options

To Come!

Logging into the Linux Console using Moonshot

The user experience of logging into the Linux Console is different to the usual experience when using moonshot (see the warning at the start of this page).

To do so, do the following:

1. At the Linux console login prompt, enter the full NAI of your username (e.g. johnsmith@example.com). Hit return.
2. A Password: prompt will show. Enter the password associated with the account. Hit return.
3. If successful, you should be logged into the Linux Console as the local user that your account is mapped to (see next section).