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@@ -1 +1,29 @@ -info later +This project was written in during April - August in 2008 +as part of the Google Summer of Code under the Gentoo Organization. + +The aim of this project is to provide working PAM modules +for Linux which will be built against OpenPAM and will be able +to work in a system without Linux-PAM. This will, hopefully, give +people the ability to choose which PAM library to use, which has +been one of the long term goals of the PAM team. + +In order to build the modules, you must already have a system +with OpenPAM installed. The installation procedure for now is +quite simple : + +>$ make && make install + +should take care of everything. Also, after installing these PAM +modules you should edit the files under /etc/pam.d/ to remove all +unwanted entries. Sample files exist in examples/pam.d/ for the most +common applications. + +After replacing Linux-PAM with OpenPAM, all applications that +use PAM must be rebuild because while API compliant, Linux-PAM +and OpenPAM are not ABI compiant which can result in an unusable +system. One of these applications is the shadow package, which provides +passwd, the interface which enables users to update their passwords. + +For any questions contact me at: + +mellos <at> ceid <dot> upatras <dot> gr |