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Adding pam-http module
author Anthony Nowell <anthony@algorithmia.com>
date Sun, 24 Sep 2017 00:22:29 -0600
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1 //! Interface to the pluggable authentication module framework (PAM).
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2 //!
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3 //! The goal of this library is to provide a type-safe API that can be used to
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4 //! interact with PAM. The library is incomplete - currently it supports
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5 //! a subset of functions for use in a pam authentication module. A pam module
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6 //! is a shared library that is invoked to authenticate a user, or to perform
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7 //! other functions.
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8 //!
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9 //! For general information on writing pam modules, see
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10 //! [The Linux-PAM Module Writers' Guide][module-guide]
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11 //!
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12 //! [module-guide]: http://www.linux-pam.org/Linux-PAM-html/Linux-PAM_MWG.html
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13 //!
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14 //! A typical authentication module will define an external function called
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15 //! `pam_sm_authenticate()`, which will use functions in this library to
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16 //! interrogate the program that requested authentication for more information,
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17 //! and to render a result. For a working example that uses this library, see
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18 //! [toznyauth-pam][].
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19 //!
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20 //! [toznyauth-pam]: https://github.com/tozny/toznyauth-pam
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21 //!
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22 //! Note that constants that are normally read from pam header files are
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23 //! hard-coded in the `constants` module. The values there are taken from
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24 //! a Linux system. That means that it might take some work to get this library
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25 //! to work on other platforms.
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27 extern crate libc;
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29 pub mod conv;
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30 pub mod constants;
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31 pub mod items;
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32 pub mod module;