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title: How to install and configure the yubikey-pam module on archlinux
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Not so long ago I've been gifted with a Yubikey. It's a two-auth hardware
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solution with multiple auth methods (OTP, Challenge-response, OATH-HOTP and
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static password). It easily scaled to one of my favourite and most useful
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gadgets.
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I've been a google authenticator user for a while, but the yubikey is just
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much easier to work with: when configured, you only need to tap a button on
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the usb stick to generate your key. You can use this in many ways, but in this
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post I'm focusing on ssh authentication and how to install the yubico-pam
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module into an Arch installation.
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## Installing the required packages
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Thanks to the awesome arch community we already have the needed packages on
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the AUR, these are: [yubico-pam-
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git](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/yubico-pam-git/), [yubico-c-client-
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git](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/yubico-c-client-git/), [yubikey-
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personalization-git](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/yubikey-
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personalization-git/) and
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[libyubikey](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libyubikey/). Keep in mind
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that you _may_ need to install more packages depending on your system
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installation.
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You can install that with your favourite AUR helper or using `makepkg`:
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``` text
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$ curl -O https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/li/libyubikey/libyubikey.tar.gz
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$ tar xvzf libyubikey.tar.gz
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$ cd libyubikey
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$ makepkg PKGBUILD
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# ...
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$ sudo pacman -U libyubikey-1.10-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
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```
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Repeat that step for all the packages, in order: _libyubikey_, _yubico-c-
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client_, _yubikey-personalization_ and _yubico-pam_. If you have trouble
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installing from the AUR [refer to the appropiate wiki
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page](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR#Installing_packages).
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## Configure the PAM module
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Edit `/etc/pam.d/sshd` and add on top on the rest of the auth modules:
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``` text
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auth sufficient pam_yubico.so id=XXXX key=XXXX
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```
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You can obtain an ID/key conbination by registering your yubikey [at this
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page](https://upgrade.yubico.com/getapikey/).
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## Authorization methods
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### Individual authorization mapping
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If your server have multiple users this is the easiest method to let them
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configure their yubikeys. You just need to create the file
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`$HOME/.yubico/authorized_yubikeys` with the following contents:
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``` text
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<username>:<Yubikey token ID 1>[:<Yubikey token ID 2][:...]
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```
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The yubikey token identifier can be obtained by removing the last 32
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characters of any OTP value, and you can add more than one ID to the file.
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Restart your ssh server to apply the changes.
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### Central authorization mapping
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Create a file on `/etc/yubikey_mappings` that will contain all your users and
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their respective yubikey token identifiers, like this:
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``` text
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<first username>:<Yubikey token ID 1>[:<Yubikey token ID 2][:...]
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<second username>:<Yubikey token ID 3>[:<Yubikey token ID 4][:...]
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```
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For this to work, you need to specify this file to the pam module `authfile`
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parameter:
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``` text
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auth sufficient pam_yubico.so id=XXXX key=XXXX authfile=/etc/yubikey_mappings
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```
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After that estart your ssh server to apply the changes.
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## Logging in
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The next time you're asked for a password on you ssh login you can use a
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yubikey OTP instead of your current password -if you have any-.
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This method works pretty well with authorized ssh keys as well, since you will
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log-in automatically from a computer with a configured ssh key but an OTP -or
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password- will be required for logging in from anywhere else.
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**Yubico-pam module |** [Github](https://github.com/Yubico/yubico-pam)
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**Yubico |** [Home page](http://www.yubico.com/)
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pub_date: 2013-07-09
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