User Management

System Integration

Jetstream integrates with PAM on Linux and macOS and the system’s built-in authentication on Windows. This allows any users with login permissions, including Active Directory or LDAP users, to store files to or retrieve files from the Jetstream server. From an administration point of view, this allows the use of existing tools for user management and integration with existing infrastructure.

Jetstream server does not require users to have a valid login shell, so the shell can be set to, for example, /usr/sbin/nologin or /bin/false to prevent users from logging onto the system by other means.

On Linux, a new PAM configuration file is created: /etc/pam.d/jetstream. This file can be further customized with PAM plugins to restrict user access to Jetstream. See PAM configuration man page (external link) for help with customizing PAM.

Note

Jetstream Server will only integrate with system’s authentication service when it’s running as root or via sudo (Linux, macOS), or system service (Windows). This is the default configuration when Jetstream is installed.

If Jetstream Server is running as unprivileged user, only that user will be able to authenticate when connecting via API or Jetstream Client.