How to obtain the version information for RSA Authentication Agent for PAM installed on Linux
Originally Published: 2006-10-11
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RSA Product/Service Type: Authentication Agent for PAM
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You can determine the version of the RSA Authentication Agent for PAM via the strings command Following are examples on determining the agent version.
- Find where your PAM agent is installed via the find command.
/opt is the default agent install directory.
[bash #] find / -name pam /etc/log.d/scripts/services/pam /opt/pam
- Navigate to the installation directory
[bash #] cd /opt/pam/lib
- Run the strings command for the version.
[bash #] strings pam_securid.so | grep "Agent" @(#)RSA Authentication Agent 8.0.0 for PAM [195]
- Run the following command to obtain the version number along with build information of the RSA installed PAM agent. Sample output is included.
[bash #] strings pam_securid.so | grep "Agent" RSA Authentication Agent 8.0.0 for PAM [195] 11_23_17_04_55_27
[bash #] strings pam_securid.so | grep "Built on" . Built on Jan 19 2018 13:30:33
For older versions
[bash]# strings pam_securid.so | grep "Agent" @(#)RSA Authentication Agent 6.0 for PAM [011]
[bash]# strings pam_securid.so | grep "Agent" @(#)RSA Authentication Agent 5.3 for PAM [254]
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