From 03012f54b1bcd31e0b817fc0222a9a47709c4018 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Laurent Bercot Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2018 23:22:53 +0000 Subject: Initial commit --- README | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4a17ae0 --- /dev/null +++ b/README @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +pamela - a PAM wrapper for secure execution +------------------------------------------- + + pamela is a library implementing the PAM API. + + Traditional PAM implementations such as Linux-PAM +load PAM modules dynamically into the application's address +space. This is unsafe and exposes a lot of attack surface. +Instead, pamela encapsulates the inner workings of PAM +in a binary which is itself linked against Linux-PAM and +performs all the module loading in its own address space; +pamela provides an implementation of the PAM user API that +communicates with that binary, keeping the application's +address space free of external modules. + + See http://skarnet.org/software/pamela/ for details. + + +* Installation + ------------ + + See the INSTALL file. + + +* Contact information + ------------------- + + Laurent Bercot -- cgit v1.3.1