Linux-PAM

This is the primary distribution site for the Linux-PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules for Linux) project. (The ftp version of this site is ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/.)

At the time of writing (at least) the following vendors/distributions/etc support PAM using the Linux-PAM sources (tell me if there are others, or feel free to supply missing information).

Things to be found here are documentation and source code for Linux-PAM.

Documentation

• Info on PAM modules and applications that reside around the 'net.
• The beginnings of a FAQ
• Online documentation
• Offline documentation
• Red Hat run the mailing list for this project. To look at the archives, subscribe or unsubscribe from the list look here: the PAM mailing list.
• Here is a working document attempting to generalize PAM to support client<->server programming models. The original DCE/OSF-RFC as proposed by the people at SunSoft.
• Sun has a webpage devoted to their Solaris implementation of PAM. (Which through license agreements has also turned up in other commercial flavors of UN*X.)
  • Some more information for you if you want to use both Solaris and Linux's PAM implementation.
• The XSSO spec which is X/Open's attempt to absorb PAM into something bigger (draft from 1997 courteously made available to us by Vipin). Here is a link to the OpenGroup's packaging of this same definition.

Hall of Fame

Here we list the people that have found bugs in the Linux-PAM distribution. It is thanks to their efforts that Linux-PAM is a safer piece of software.

Source code

PAM for me is a hobby. For this reason I do not supply pre-compiled binaries and am probably not the most appropriate person to seek support from. [Feedback is welcome -- see below for email addresses.] If you are looking for a stable version of this code, you should look to versions that are included in standard distributions. They also offer user support.

If you want bleeding edge stuff, you might like to check out the sourceforge PAM site. Look at the CVS tree for notes on recent changes - including the CHANGELOG.

All of the source code for PAM is here. Primarily this is the Latest Linux-PAM tar ball. Files that are PGP signed are signed with my PGP key:

More info.

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