PAM for .NET

This library makes the PAM API available for .NET applications.

License

The library is released under the .

Example

The following example creates a PAM transaction and tries to authenticate a user.

// Create the service
var pamService = new PamService(
    // The service options
    new OptionsWrapper<PamSessionConfiguration>(new PamSessionConfiguration()));

// The PAM message handler
var messageHandler = new ConsoleMessageHandler();

// Create a PAM transaction
using (var pamTransaction = pamService.Start(messageHandler))
{
    // Change the user prompt
    pamTransaction.UserPrompt = "my customized user login prompt: ";

    // Authenticate
    pamTransaction.Authenticate();

    // Ensure that the user isn't locked (etc...)
    pamTransaction.AccountManagement();

    Console.WriteLine("User authentication for use {0} successful.", pamTransaction.UserName);
}

Prerequisites

• .NET Core 3.0

FAQ

Why .NET Core 3.0 (AKA: WHY???)

TL/DR: It makes my life easier.

This library uses the native library loading mechanism of .NET Core 3.0. This is required when you want to avoid using libdl.so, which is either only available in a -dev package, has a different name, depending on your operating system or distribution or other problems.

And no: netstandard2.1 doesn't support this API.

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