Crate pam

Interface to the pluggable authentication module framework (PAM).

The goal of this library is to provide a type-safe API that can be used to interact with PAM. The library is incomplete - currently it supports a subset of functions for use in a pam authentication module. A pam module is a shared library that is invoked to authenticate a user, or to perform other functions.

For general information on writing pam modules, see The Linux-PAM Module Writers' Guide

A typical authentication module will define an external function called pam_sm_authenticate(), which will use functions in this library to interrogate the program that requested authentication for more information, and to render a result. For a working example that uses this library, see toznyauth-pam.

Note that constants that are normally read from pam header files are hard-coded in the constants module. The values there are taken from a Linux system. That means that it might take some work to get this library to work on other platforms.

Modules

constants
conv
module	Functions for use in pam modules.