Gentoo Packages

sys-libs/pam (gentoo)

Search

Install

Install this package:

emerge -a sys-libs/pam

If the package is masked, you can unmask it using the autounmask tool or standard emerge options:

autounmask sys-libs/pam

Or alternatively:

emerge --autounmask-write -a sys-libs/pam

Package Information

Description:
Linux-PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules)
Homepage:
https://github.com/linux-pam/linux-pam
License:
|| ( BSD GPL-2 )

Versions

Version EAPI Keywords Slot
1.7.2 8 ~alpha amd64 arm arm64 ~hppa ~loong ~m68k ~mips ppc ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc x86 0

Metadata

Maintainers

Upstream

Raw Metadata XML 
<pkgmetadata>
	<maintainer type="project">
		<email>base-system@gentoo.org</email>
	</maintainer>
	<maintainer type="person">
		<email>sam@gentoo.org</email>
		<name>Sam James</name>
	</maintainer>
	<use>
		<flag name="berkdb">
			Build the pam_userdb module, that allows to authenticate users
			against a Berkeley DB file. Please note that enabling this USE
			flag will create a PAM module that links to the Berkeley DB (as
			provided by <pkg>sys-libs/db</pkg>) installed in /usr/lib and
			will thus not work for boot-critical services authentication.
		</flag>
	</use>
	<upstream>
		<remote-id type="github">linux-pam/linux-pam</remote-id>
		<remote-id type="cpe">cpe:/a:kernel:linux-pam</remote-id>
	</upstream>
</pkgmetadata>

Lint Warnings

USE Flags

Manage flags for this package: euse -i <flag> -p sys-libs/pam | euse -E <flag> -p sys-libs/pam | euse -D <flag> -p sys-libs/pam

Flag Description 1.7.2
audit Enable support for Linux audit subsystem using sys-process/audit ✓
berkdb Build the pam_userdb module, that allows to authenticate users against a Berkeley DB file. Please note that enabling this USE flag will create a PAM module that links to the Berkeley DB (as provided by <pkg>sys-libs/db</pkg>) installed in /usr/lib and will thus not work for boot-critical services authentication. ✓
debug Enable extra debug codepaths, like asserts and extra output. If you want to get meaningful backtraces see https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Quality_Assurance/Backtraces ✓
elogind Enable session tracking via sys-auth/elogind ✓
examples Install examples, usually source code ✓
nis Support for NIS/YP services ✓
nls Add Native Language Support (using gettext - GNU locale utilities) ✓
selinux !!internal use only!! Security Enhanced Linux support, this must be set by the selinux profile or breakage will occur ✓
systemd Enable use of systemd-specific libraries and features like socket activation or session tracking ✓

Manifest

Type File Size Versions
Unmatched Entries
Type File Size
DIST Linux-PAM-1.7.2.tar.xz 511724 bytes
DIST Linux-PAM-1.7.2.tar.xz.asc 833 bytes