Function lockchain_core::users::pam_authenticate

pub fn pam_authenticate(username: &str, password: &str) -> Result<(), AuthError>

Simple way to authenticate a user for administrative actions

Attempts to open a PAM session for the provided user/pw combination then attempts to write to a tmpfile in the lockchain config directory. If this action is successful the user is either the same running the lockchain server or has access to the file via group permissions.

This does rely on lockchain being properly configured on the server i.e. not using public permissions for the configuration/ state directory.

Note as of lockchain v0.9.0 this function has not been implemented yet due to issues in the pam-auth dependency.