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PAMther in a nutshell

PAMther aims to be a pure Java interface to the Unix PAM API (Pluggable Authentication Modules). PAM itself is a native authentication stack and is commonly used in nearly every UNIX or Linux OS (e.g. Mac OSX, FreeBSD; Solaris, Ubuntu, Fedora).

Features

Authentication and account validation either through the direct API or the JAAS module.
Direct interaction with PAM modules via JAAS Callback mechanism.
Mechanism for changing users authentication token.

Tested platforms

Linux (Ubuntu 11.10 x64)
Solaris (v11 x64)

Examples

Just have a look at the unit tests.

Download

See download section.

License

This library is provided under the Apache 2 license.