README
1OpenPAM is an open source PAM library that focuses on simplicity,
2correctness, and cleanliness.
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4OpenPAM aims to gather the best features of Solaris PAM, XSSO and
5Linux-PAM, plus some innovations of its own. In areas where these
6implementations disagree, OpenPAM tries to remain compatible with
7Solaris, at the expense of XSSO conformance and Linux-PAM
8compatibility.
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10These are some of OpenPAM's features:
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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. Also
15 implements some extensions found in Solaris 9.
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17 - Extends the API with several useful and time-saving functions.
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19 - Performs strict checking of return values from service modules.
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21 - Reads configuration from /etc/pam.d/, /etc/pam.conf,
22 /usr/local/etc/pam.d/ and /usr/local/etc/pam.conf, in that order;
23 this will be made configurable in a future release.
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25Please direct bug reports and inquiries to des@freebsd.org.
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27$Id: README 320 2006-02-16 20:33:19Z des $
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