Authen::PAM - a perl interface to the PAM library

Authen::PAM is a perl module which provides an interface to the PAM library.

Currently the following or newer implementations of the PAM library are supported:

• Linux-PAM
• Solaris 2.6
• FreeBSD 3.1
• OpenPAM
• HP-UX 11.0
• Darwin 6.0 and of course Mac OS X 10.2

NEWS

2005-Sep-20

Released version 0.16. One of the main changes is the typemap of pam_handle_t *.
This hopefully fixes some segmentation faults several people reported (for example with perl 5.8.7 on FreeBSD).

DOCUMENTATION

• README file (includes description of the known problems)
• Changes - this also includes the changes of the development vesion
• Authen::PAM man page
• FAQ

Also visit the CPAN page of the module http://search.cpan.org/dist/Authen-PAM/ for:

• CPAN Testers
• View/Report Bugs
• Rating
• Discussion Forum

DOWNLOAD

• Authen-PAM-0.17.

The development releases are more or less stable but either I am planning to make more changes or I am waiting for the people to download and test them before I put them on CPAN. So don't wait and give it a try.

• Authen-PAM-0.16 from my CPAN directory CPAN/authors/id/N/NI/NIKIP/