TFC management is concerned with the TFC\JIngalls account, owned by Jeff Ingalls, and is subject to malicious internal and external attacks due to its permanent membership in the TFCAdmins group. The TFCAdmins group grants access to several highly confidential shares and servers. TFC management likes to utilize PAM to eliminate the permanent membership of the TFCAdmins group, mitigating risk while still allowing Jeff to do his job.
To validate our PAM deployment works, Jeff will gain access to an NTFS-secured file through a PAM request. In the past, he could open up the file directly, but under PAM, he will need to perform an extra request step before he can access the file. To set up the scenario, a folder named TOPSECRET on the TFCWIN10 workstation will have NTFS permissions applied to only allow access to members of the TFCAdmins group. Once PAM is deployed, the TFC\JIngalls account will not be in the TFCAdmins group. Yet, through PAM, Jeff will be able to access a file named...
