pamtester - test pluggable authentication module (PAM) facility

       Written by Moriyoshi Koizumi <moriyoshi@users.sourceforge.net>

       Copyright © 2004 - 2005 Moriyoshi Koizumi. All rights reserved.

       Test pluggable authentication module (PAM) facility.

       service  is  the PAM service name. user is the name of the user account to operate with the PAM facility.
       The following operations are supported.

       authenticate
              Authenticate user. A conversation may subsequently take place to prompt  user  input  to  retrieve
              necessary authentication information.

       acct_mgmt
              Perform  account  management  on  user.  A conversation may subsequently take place to prompt user
              input for necessary authentication information.

       open_session
              Open a new session for user.

       close_session
              Close the current session for user.

       chauthtok
              Change the authentication token currently assigned to user.  Conversation  may  subsequently  take
              place to prompt user input for necessary authentication information.

       Note  that  some operations may eventually need additional privileges to fulfill the request depending on
       the service configuration.

       Any operation may also be followed by the option flags that are provided between the pair of parenthesis.
       Flags are all named and combinable or inversible with bitwise operators; "|" (OR), "&" (AND),  "^"  (XOR)
       and "~" (NOT) are accepted.

              authenticate(PAM_SILENT | PAM_DISALLOW_NULL_AUTHTOK)

       The list of allowed options is shown below:

       - PAM_SILENT

       - PAM_DISALLOW_NULL_AUTHTOK

       - PAM_ESTABLISH_CRED

       - PAM_REINITIALIZE_CRED

       - PAM_REFRESH_CRED

       - PAM_CHANGE_EXPIRED_AUTHTOK

       Additional  authentication  information  such as the name of the remote user, the remote host and the tty
       can be supplied via -I (--item) option.

       The following types of information are supported:

       - service

       - user

       - prompt

       - tty

       - ruser

       - rhost

       pamtester - test pluggable authentication module (PAM) facility

-v, --verbose
              Turn on verbose mode.

       -Iitem=value, --itemitem=value
              Provide additional information to authentication module.

       -Evar=value, --envvar=value
              Set environment variable var to value

       Report bugs to <pamtester-bugs@lists.sourceforge.net>.

pam(7)

pamtester 0.1.2                                    March 2005                                       PAMTESTER(1)

pamtester [-v] [-I item=value] [-E var=value] serviceuseroperation [operation ...]