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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).
2 //!
3 //! The goal of this library is to provide a type-safe API that can be used to
4 //! interact with PAM. The library is incomplete - currently it supports
5 //! a subset of functions for use in a pam authentication module. A pam module
6 //! is a shared library that is invoked to authenticate a user, or to perform
7 //! other functions.
8 //!
9 //! For general information on writing pam modules, see
10 //! [The Linux-PAM Module Writers' Guide][module-guide]
11 //!
12 //! [module-guide]: http://www.linux-pam.org/Linux-PAM-html/Linux-PAM_MWG.html
13 //!
14 //! A typical authentication module will define an external function called
15 //! `pam_sm_authenticate()`, which will use functions in this library to
16 //! interrogate the program that requested authentication for more information,
17 //! and to render a result. For a working example that uses this library, see
18 //! [toznyauth-pam][].
19 //!
20 //! [toznyauth-pam]: https://github.com/tozny/toznyauth-pam
21 //!
22 //! Note that constants that are normally read from pam header files are
23 //! hard-coded in the `constants` module. The values there are taken from
24 //! a Linux system. That means that it might take some work to get this library
25 //! to work on other platforms.
26
27 extern crate libc;
28
29 pub mod conv;
30 pub mod constants;
31 pub mod items;
32 pub mod module;