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1 # 🍳 nonstick
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3 Nonstick lets you use PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) from Rust without getting stuck in unsafe code.
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5 ## Status
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7 This is currently very incomplete.
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8 It only provides functionality for developing your own PAM authentication module (i.e., a backend that PAM calls to authenticate a user or do something similar).
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9 A very immature implementation of the PAM Conversation structure is gated behind the `experimental` feature.
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10 At the moment, [Linux-PAM](https://github.com/linux-pam/linux-pam) is the only supported PAM implementation.
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12 *If you’re looking for a library to implement a PAM client* (i.e., something that authenticates using PAM), consider the [`pam` crate](https://crates.io/crates/pam).
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14 APIs are likely to break before v0.1.0, and thereafter should stabilize to an eventual 1.0 release.
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16 Goals include:
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18 - Bindings for PAM clients.
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19 - A robust and mature implementation of Conversation.
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20 - Support for non–Linux-PAM implementations.
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22 ## Credits
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24 This is a direct fork of [Anthony Nowell](http://anowell.com/)’s [`pam-rs`/`pam-bindings` crate](https://crates.io/crates/pam-bindings).
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25 `pam-rs` was in turn inspired by:
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27 - [`rust-pam` by tozny](https://github.com/tozny/rust-pam)
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28 - [`pam_groupmap` by ndenev](https://github.com/ndenev/pam_groupmap)
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29 - [`pam-http` by beatgammit](https://github.com/beatgammit/pam-http)