authlocal is a simple, self-contained program module (Just one file, just one function to call from your code) to automatically authenticate users logging into servers from localhost. No username/password entry is required. authlocal has been tested to work under versions 2.0 - 2.4 of the Linux kernel.
Newly ported to Fedora 9/GCC 4.3 Newly available on Fedora 9 under GCC 4.3.
Re: It works after all In more recent devel releases, Makefile-linux has PAM, and Makefile-linux-nopam does not have PAM.
It works after all :) It's now verified to work on RedHat 6.x systems, including those with MD5 passwords. Be sure to use the appropriate makefile (Makefile-linux-pam, not just plain Makefile-linu...