Linux-PAM

This is the primary distribution site for the Linux-PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules for Linux) project.

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.

Bug reports

Please use the Bug Tracker at the Linux-PAM site.

Source code

If you want bleeding edge stuff, you might like to check out the Linux-PAM site. Look at the git repository for notes on recent changes.

The latest stable source code of Linux-PAM is here. Unstable versions of other modules and applications can be found here. Files that are PGP signed are signed with my PGP key:

More info.

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