How to determine the auth method used?
Thorsten Kukuk
kukuk at suse.de
Wed Sep 21 13:55:30 UTC 2005
On Wed, Sep 21, Christi Garvin wrote:
> Apologies if this question is a repeat, but I haven't seen it addressed in any recent posts to the group, or in any of the PAM documentation:
>
> If a system is configured to use multiple auth methods (LDAP, RADIUS, etc.) - when a user is successfully authenticated with pam_authenticate(), how can you determine which auth method PAM used to authenticate the user?
You cannot. That is the principle of PAM: The application does not
need to know anything.
Thorsten
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