Authenticate against PAM
Provides an authenticate function that will allow the caller to authenticate a user against the Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) on the system.
Implemented using ctypes, so no compilation is necessary.
Note
PAM authentication will not work for the root user.
The Python interface to PAM does not support authenticating as root.
Wrapper class for pam_conv structure
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Wrapper class for pam_message structure
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Wrapper class for pam_response structure
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Authenticate via pam
Returns True if the given username and password authenticate for the given service. Returns False otherwise
username: the username to authenticate
password: the password in plain text
Current Salt release: 2014.1.6
Docs for previous releases on salt.rtfd.org.