PAMther in a nutshell

PAMther aims to be a pure Java interface to the Unix PAM API (Pluggable Authentication Modules). PAM itself is a native authentication stack and is commonly used in nearly every UNIX or Linux OS (e.g. Mac OSX, FreeBSD; Solaris, Ubuntu, Fedora).

Features

• Authentication and account validation either through the direct API or the JAAS module.
• Direct interaction with PAM modules via JAAS Callback mechanism.
• Mechanism for changing users authentication token.

Tested platforms

• Linux (Ubuntu 11.10 x64)
• Solaris (v11 x64)

Examples

Just have a look at the unit tests.

Download

See download section.

License

This library is provided under the Apache 2 license.