Re: Hoe to get uid,gid through PAM

["preet $" <preet3039@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for your reply.

 

Preet

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 1:38 AM, Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@xxxxxxx> wrote:

On Wed, Aug 17, preet $ wrote:

> Hello,
>
>       How do I get the user credentials such as uid, eid, and gid defined in
> various authentication mechanisms such as LDAP etc through PAM. Please
> provide some info on that.

You will not. PAM does only authenticate an user for you,
nothing more. What you mean is getpwnam() and similar functions
handled by NSS modules.

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