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From: Kris Deugau (kdeugauwebhart.net)
Date: Tue Nov 13 2001 - 15:51:47 CST

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    I'm working on understanding how PAM works from the point of view of an
    application, in order to (hopefully soon) make use of it to build some
    server tools I have need of.

    Where I'm having trouble is in figuring out how to put together the
    conversation function. I know I need one, as the standard PAM password
    prompts won't work for POP3 (and a number of other standard TCP
    protocols), but all I've been able to find in the way of documentation
    is a listing of what data is passed to the function and how it's
    organized.

    I haven't been able to find a simple working example of a conversation
    function anywhere, and the example apps included with the PAM source
    don't make use of one.

    Can someone provide a simple example please?

    On a semi-related topic, does an app have to begin execution under a
    certain user ID in order to properly authenticate against the system
    password database?

    -kgd 

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