Checking if PAM is used by login

[Kenneth Geisshirt]

On Tue, June 26, 2007 10:14, David Resnick wrote:

> Is there any method of checking if the services are compiled to use the
> PAM modules?

First of all, all Linux distributions (to my knowledge Slackware is the
only exception) use PAM for authentication (login) and password changes.

Second, you should take a look at /var/log/message (or similar) where PAM
is write log messages. For example I have the following in my log:

Jun 26 11:10:01 colws01m crond(pam_unix)[5283]: session opened for user
root by (uid=0)
Jun 26 11:10:01 colws01m crond(pam_unix)[5283]: session closed for user root

/kneth