| 1 | OpenPAM is an open source PAM library that focuses on simplicity, |
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| 2 | correctness, and cleanliness. |
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| 4 | OpenPAM aims to gather the best features of Solaris PAM, XSSO and |
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| 5 | Linux-PAM, plus some innovations of its own. In areas where these |
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| 6 | implementations disagree, OpenPAM tries to remain compatible with |
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| 7 | Solaris, at the expense of XSSO conformance and Linux-PAM |
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| 8 | compatibility. |
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| 10 | These are some of OpenPAM's features: |
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| 12 | - Implements the complete PAM API as described in the original PAM |
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| 13 | paper and in OSF-RFC 86.0; this corresponds to the full XSSO API |
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| 14 | except for mappings and secondary authentication. |
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| 16 | - Extends the API with several useful and time-saving functions: |
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| 17 | pam_error(), pam_get_authtok(), pam_info(), pam_prompt(), |
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| 18 | pam_setenv(), pam_verror(), pam_vinfo(), pam_vprompt() |
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| 20 | - Offers a number of time-saving convenience functions: |
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| 21 | openpam_log(), openpam_ttyconv(). |
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| 23 | - Performs strict checking of return values from service modules. |
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| 25 | - Reads configuration from /etc/pam.d/, /usr/local/etc/pam.d/ and |
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| 26 | /etc/pam.conf, in that order; this will be made configurable in a |
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| 27 | future release.Please direct bug reports and inquiries to |
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| 28 | openpam@thinksec.com. |
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| 30 | $P4: //depot/projects/openpam/README#2 $ |
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