Privacyidea-pam package missing in Ubuntu 18.04 repo

Installation
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Hello,

I’ve installed privacyIDEA on Ubuntu 18.04 with the following /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://lancelot.netknights.it/community/bionic/devel bionic main

~# apt-cache search privacyidea
privacyidea - two-factor authentication system e.g. for OTP devices
privacyidea-apache2 - 2FA system. This is a meta package to install privacyidea with apache2
privacyidea-nginx - 2FA system. This is a meta package to install privacyidea with nginx
privacyidea-radius - FreeRADIUS module for privacyIDEA, OTP authentication

I wanted to install privacyidea-pam but was unable to find it in the repo.
https://privacyidea.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation/ubuntu.html#pam
I could use the .py File from Github, but having it from the repo would be preferred.

Thank you,
Christoph

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Hi Christoph and welcome to the forum,

we used to have a privacyidea-pam package in the ubuntu ppa for 16.04.
Currently we are gradually adding support for 18.04, so there should be a package available soon.

Regards
Paul

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Hi Christoph,
what do you actually want to achieve?
Unfortunately you provided not much information - so what is it, you want to do?

Honestly, I would recommend either to use the python script from github or to use pam-radius.
pam-radius comes with all distributions and just works as well as the privacyidea-pam module for most scenarios. (Unless you want to distribute ssh keys or really are going down the road to do offline).

Kind regards
Cornelius

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Hi Cornelius,

I’ve compiled and successfully tested the privacyidea-pam module.

The use case is a Freeradius server that adds 2FA together with AD.
Is privacyidea_radius.pm needed to direct the radius server to privacyIDEA?

Thank you,
Christoph

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Hi Christoph,

if you are doing 2FA via the RADIUS protocol (like connecting a VPN or whatever), then there is no need for the privacyidea-pam Modul.
Yes, use the privacyidea_radius.pm which comes with the privacyidea-radius ubuntu package.
(see https://privacyidea.readthedocs.io/en/latest/application_plugins/rlm_perl.html#rlm-perl)
The ubuntu package is available for Ubuntu 18.04.

If by any chance you are at the FrOSCon in August, stop by at our project room on Sunday!

Regards
COrnelius

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Hi Cornelius,

thanks for your help. I’ve switched to privacyidea_radius.pm and it works very well either.
Unfortunately I won’t be able to join Froscon this year.

Anyways I really, really like PrivacyIDEA. Nearly every feature I was thinking about, has already been implemented. Keep up the great work!

Regards,
Christoph

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