Chapter 3. The public interface to Linux-PAM
Table of Contents
- 3.1. What can be expected by the application
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- 3.1.1. Initialization of PAM transaction
- 3.1.2. Termination of PAM transaction
- 3.1.3. Setting PAM items
- 3.1.4. Getting PAM items
- 3.1.5. Strings describing PAM error codes
- 3.1.6. Request a delay on failure
- 3.1.7. Authenticating the user
- 3.1.8. Setting user credentials
- 3.1.9. Account validation management
- 3.1.10. Updating authentication tokens
- 3.1.11. Start PAM session management
- 3.1.12. terminating PAM session management
- 3.1.13. Set or change PAM environment variable
- 3.1.14. Get a PAM environment variable
- 3.1.15. Getting the PAM environment
- 3.2. What is expected of an application
- 3.3. Programming notes