Hello .... I am new to PAM, and I am writing an application in Linux that needs to authenticate users. So far, I have been successful in authenticating users by letting the PAM APIs prompt the user to enter their password. However, I would like users to send their password through an API as instead of prompting them to enter their password. Can anybody explain if this is possible and how? For example, I would like a user to enter from the command line something like: $ myapp login [user] passwd [password] and pass both [user] and [password] to a PAM API that will authenticate the user with the given password. Second, I noticed in the PAM website that an example application requires application writers that wish to use PAM to add a couple of lines in the /etc/pam.conf file that look like this: [service name] auth required [pam auth library name] [service name] account required [pam acct library name] Is it possible to avoid having to do this? I believe that one option is to provide your own authentication module (library) -- in the same way login, su, and other Linux apps do --, and link your application to that module. Are there any other options? Having to provide another library in my application is the last option, so modifying the pam.conf file is probably ok, but if there is an option that does not require providing a new library and changing the pam.conf file, I would be glad to know about it. Thanks in advance for any help .... Benjamin S. Vera-Tudela Software Engineer IBM e-boss - Austin, Texas Phone: (512)-838-8246 E-Mail: bveratudela@us.ibm.com
