Package net.sf.jpam

This package contains the public API for using jpam.

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Description

Class Summary

Pam	The PAM bridging class.
PamReturnValue	A type-safe enum for PAM return values.

Exception Summary

PamException

The PamException class is used to indicate that an exceptional condition has occurred in the native PAM library This exception does not use the new JDK1.4 chainable excecptions facility to maintain backward compatibility with JDK1.2 and JDK1.3.

Package net.sf.jpam Description

    This package contains the public API for using jpam.

    The tasks of authentication into four independent
    management groups:

    - account: account management
    - auth: authentication management
    - password: password management
    - session: session management

    As a whole the four are called a policy.

    Each configuration line is a policy