<AuthBy PAM> provides authentication via any method supported by
PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) on your host. It is implemented in
AuthPAM.pm. It requires that PAM be installed and configured on your host,
and it also requires the Perl module Authen-PAM-0.04 or later. It is part
of CPAN. For more information, see
Section 2.1.2.
<AuthBy PAM> asks PAM to authenticate the user using the PAM
service specified with the Service parameter (defaults to “login”).
AuthBy PAM has not been tested on Windows platforms.
Tip
Make sure PAM is configured on your host before building
and testing the Authen-PAM Perl module, otherwise “make test” will report
errors. This will usually require configuring
/etc/pam.conf, or perhaps /etc/pam.d/login for the
login service. For example, on our RedHat 5.2 Linux, we found that we had
to remove the pam_securetty from our /etc/pam.d/login
file to enable testing from other than a secure TTY. Consult your system
documentation for details on configuring PAM.
<AuthBy PAM> understands also the same parameters as <AuthBy
xxxxxx>. For more information, see
Section 3.32.
