pam_canonicalize_user — Get user name and canonicalize it

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DESCRIPTION

This PAM module uses the name of the user obtained via pam_get_user(3) as a key
to query the password database, and replaces PAM_USER with the pw_name value
that has been returned.

OPTIONS

This module does not recognise any options.

EXAMPLES

Prepend the PAM auth stack with the following line to canonicalize the user
name before the authentication:

        auth required pam_canonicalize_user.so


AUTHOR

pam_canonicalize_user was written by Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@strace.io>.