Functions in this library provide routines for the Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM).

The shared object libpam.so.1 provides the public interfaces defined below. See intro(3) for additional information on shared object interfaces.

/usr/lib/libpam.so.1

shared object

/etc/pam.conf

configuration file

/usr/lib/security/pam_dial_auth.so.1

authentication management PAM module for dialups

/usr/lib/security/pam_rhosts_auth.so.1

authentication management PAM modules that use ruserok()

/usr/lib/security/pam_sample.so.1

sample PAM module

/usr/lib/security/pam_unix.so.1

authentication, account, session and password management PAM module

See attributes(5) for description of the following attributes:

pvs(1), intro(3), pam(3PAM), pam.conf(4), attributes(5), pam_authtok_check(5), pam_authtok_get(5), pam_authtok_store(5), pam_dial_auth(5), pam_dhkeys(5), pam_passwd_auth(5), pam_rhosts_auth(5), pam_sample(5), pam_unix(5), pam_unix_account(5), pam_unix_auth(5), pam_unix_session(5)

The functions in libpam are MT-Safe only if each thread within the multithreaded application uses its own PAM handle.

The pam_unix(5) module might not be supported in a future release. Similar functionality is provided by pam_authtok_check(5), pam_authtok_get(5), pam_authtok_store(5), pam_dhkeys(5), pam_passwd_auth(5), pam_unix_account(5), pam_unix_auth(5), and pam_unix_session(5).