PERL & PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules)

Malus has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

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Re: PERL & PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) by hagus (Monk) on May 20, 2002 at 23:00 UTC
I don't think such a thing is possible. You can get away with writing them in C++ though. On second thoughts, you might be able to write a bootstrapping .so which calls your perl code for you. But if you are good enough to do that, you would probably just code it directly in C/C++ yourself! There are three PAM guides you should examine, if you haven't already, this page contains them all. -- Ash OS durbatulk, ash OS gimbatul, Ash OS thrakatulk, agh burzum-ishi krimpatul! Uzg-Microsoft-ishi amal fauthut burguuli.	[reply]
Re: PERL & PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) by Aristotle (Chancellor) on May 21, 2002 at 09:56 UTC
This isn't directly possible. You'll need to write a shared lib that embeds Perl; you can go from there. It's likely going to be a lot of work though - probably much more than you will want to invest, judging from the fact that you'd prefer to write your PAM module in Perl. Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]
Re^2: PERL & PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) by afoken (Chancellor) on May 30, 2009 at 22:43 UTC
It shouldn't be too hard to write a shared lib that makes RPC calls to a server writen in perl, listening on a unix or internet socket, implementing what the shared lib pretends to implement. There are already tons of PAM modules that consult various servers for information. Alexander -- Today I will gladly share my knowledge and experience, for there are no sweeter words than "I told you so". ;-)	[reply]
Re: PERL & PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) by sflitman (Hermit) on May 30, 2009 at 20:09 UTC
Now you can use Authen::PAM! HTH, SSF	[reply]