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1 pam-rs
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2 ========
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4 Rust interface to the pluggable authentication module framework (PAM).
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6 The goal of this library is to provide a type-safe API that can be used to
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7 interact with PAM. The library is incomplete - currently it supports a subset
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8 of functions for use in a pam authentication module. A pam module is a shared
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9 library that is invoked to authenticate a user, or to perform other functions.
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11 Additionally, [pam-http](pam-http) is an example of using pam-rs by performing
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12 HTTP basic access auth to authenticate users.
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14 ### Credits
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16 The contents of this repo are heavily borrowed from:
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18 - [tozny/rust-pam](https://github.com/tozny/rust-pam)
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19 - [ndenev/pam_groupmap](https://github.com/ndenev/pam_groupmap)
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20 - [beatgammit/pam-http](https://github.com/beatgammit/pam-http)