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| author | Laurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org> | 2018-02-11 13:04:56 +0000 |
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| committer | Laurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org> | 2018-02-11 13:04:56 +0000 |
| commit | 0a7251045255a3e41bad384738a5c5296750d061 (patch) | |
| tree | 3c39b752201ad8754e5d3c8928d0c45f53d11a3f /doc/building.html | |
| parent | 95744799b696198aa9eb358d4f8fbaa002b34ef9 (diff) | |
| download | pamela-0a7251045255a3e41bad384738a5c5296750d061.tar.gz | |
doc: conversation clarification
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diff --git a/doc/building.html b/doc/building.html index fdd0cd8..ff25de1 100644 --- a/doc/building.html +++ b/doc/building.html @@ -122,8 +122,10 @@ solution is to rewrite these modules so they communicate the change they wish to make via the official PAM API, and have the application perform the change itself. PAM provides a way to do this: the <em>conversation function</em>, which exchanges data -between PAM and the application. pamela fully supports custom -conversation functions. +between PAM and the application. Currently, only four types of +messages are officially specified by PAM, but the mechanism is +easily extensible and was designed for this. pamela fully supports +customized conversation functions with any message type. </p> </body> |