version 20050616 (Figwort) include:
- ENHANCE: API function arguments are now const where appropriate, to
match corresponding changes in the Solaris PAM and Linux-PAM APIs.
- ENHANCE: corrected a number of C namespace violations.
- ENHANCE: the module cache has been removed, allowing long-lived
applications to pick up module changes. This also allows multiple
threads to use PAM simultaneously (as long as they use separate PAM
contexts), since the module cache was the only part of OpenPAM that
was not thread-safe.
- BUGFIX: Correct several small signedness and initialization bugs
discovered during review by the NetBSD team.
- BUGFIX: Modify gendoc.pl to sort cross-references in dictionary
order within each section.
- ENHANCE: if a policy specifies a relative module path,
prepend the
module directory so we never call dlopen(3) with a relative
path.
- ENHANCE: add a pam.conf(5) manual page.
20040210 (Eelgrass) include:
- BUGFIX: Correct numerous markup errors, invalid cross-references,
and other issues in the manual pages, with kind assistance from
Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>.
- BUGFIX: Avoid multiple evaluation of macro arguments in ENTERX()
and RETURNX() macros.
- BUGFIX: Remove an unnecessary and non-portable pointer cast in
pam_get_data(3).
- BUGFIX: Fix identical typos in PAM_ACCT_EXPIRED case in
pam_strerror(3) and gendoc.pl.
- ENHANCE: Minor overhaul of the autoconf / build system.
- ENHANCE: Add openpam_free_envlist(3).
OpenPAM is an open source PAM library that focuses on simplicity,
correctness, and cleanliness.
OpenPAM aims to gather the best features of Solaris PAM, XSSO and
Linux-PAM, plus some innovations of its own. In areas where these
implementations disagree, OpenPAM tries to remain compatible with
Solaris, at the expense of XSSO conformance and Linux-PAM
compatibility.
These are some of OpenPAM's features:
- Implements the complete PAM API as described in the original PAM
paper and in OSF-RFC 86.0; this corresponds to the full XSSO API
except for mappings and secondary authentication. Also
implements some extensions found in Solaris 9.
- Extends the API with several useful and time-saving functions.
- Performs strict checking of return values from service modules.
