The Linux-PAM Application Developers' Guide

Andrew G. Morgan, morgan@physics.ucla.edu

DRAFT v0.43 1996/6/23


This manual documents what an application developer needs to know about the Linux-PAM library. It describes how an application might use the Linux-PAM library to authenticate users. It also contains some comments on PAM related security issues for the application developer.

1. Introduction

2. The public interface to Linux-PAM

3. Security issues of Linux-PAM

4. An example application

5. Files

6. See also

7. Notes

8. Author/acknowledgments

9. Bugs/omissions