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