Local address from PAM module?

[Jason Gerfen]

the localhost?  You could to a gethostbyname().  See 
http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man3/gethostbyname.3.html.

Hope that is what you are looking for, I have never used this function 
but it should work fine in a shared object.

Jason DiCioccio wrote:

>Greetings.
>  I am dabbling for the first time in the PAM API, and have
>encountered a bump in the what has otherwise been smooth road.  I am
>writing a module that needs to check the local address that a user is
>connecting to in order to determine where to look next for its
>information.  It is basically a virtual hosting type setup.  My
>question is, how can I obtain this information, if at all, from my
>module?  I would like this to be compatible with most things that
>already use pam without me having to patch them to do a pam_set_item()
>call.  Is this possible?
>
>  Thanks in advance!
>  Jason DiCioccio
>
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