How to determine the auth method used?

[Christi Garvin]

I understand the goal of PAM is to obscure this from the application developer.... however our application needs to perform one or more actions based on what type of auth method was used to grant the user access. Is there some other way to do this, other than by determining the auth method?

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From: pam-list-bounces at redhat.com on behalf of Thorsten Kukuk
Sent: Wed 9/21/2005 9:55 AM
To: Pluggable Authentication Modules
Subject: Re: How to determine the auth method used?



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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