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NAME
       pamtester - test pluggable authentication module (PAM) facility

SYNOPSIS
       pamtester [-v] [-I item=value] [-E var=value] service user operation
       [operation ...]

DESCRIPTION
       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

OPTIONS
       -v, --verbose
              Turn on verbose mode.

       -I item=value, --item item=value
              Provide additional information to authentication module.

       -E var=value, --env var=value
              Set environment variable var to value

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

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

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (C) 2004 - 2005 Moriyoshi Koizumi. All rights reserved.

SEE ALSO
       pam(7)

pamtester 0.1.2                   March 2005                      PAMTESTER(1)