AFRAM - authentication framework / News: Recent posts

When I tried to make my other project, SMTA, use PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules), I found, that PAM is not suitable for interaction with other applications.

It just takes control of the communication with the user, let him enter his login and password and then return control back to the application.

When the application has the authentication information and wants the framework just to verify it, then there is a problem. There is e.g. no specification, when the framework asks for the password, so the application has to guess.... read more