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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.