On Wed, Sep 21, Christi Garvin wrote: > Apologies if this question is a repeat, but I haven't seen it addressed in any recent posts to the group, or in any of the PAM documentation: > > If a system is configured to use multiple auth methods (LDAP, RADIUS, etc.) - when a user is successfully authenticated with pam_authenticate(), how can you determine which auth method PAM used to authenticate the user? You cannot. That is the principle of PAM: The application does not need to know anything. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ kukuk@xxxxxxx SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Maxfeldstr. 5 D-90409 Nuernberg -------------------------------------------------------------------- Key fingerprint = A368 676B 5E1B 3E46 CFCE 2D97 F8FD 4E23 56C6 FB4B _______________________________________________ Pam-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pam-list