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To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org>
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"Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> The part you are missing is that before you can authenticate, you must
> have account and authorization information.  For UNIX services, this
> means that e.g. getpwnam() needs to find you.

Nope - you don't need a struct passwd to call pam_authenticate(), and
PAM supports the idea of a "template user" which is used to obtain a
struct passwd for users that are authenticated through other means.
PAM applications are supposed to call pam_get_user() once the user has
been successfully authenticated to get the name of the template user.
I think most PAM applications in the base system fail to do this.

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