This library makes the PAM API available for .NET applications.
The library is released under the 
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The following example creates a PAM transaction and tries to authenticate a user.
// Create the service var pamService = new PamService( // The service options new OptionsWrapper<PamSessionConfiguration>(new PamSessionConfiguration())); // The PAM message handler var messageHandler = new ConsoleMessageHandler(); // Create a PAM transaction using (var pamTransaction = pamService.Start(messageHandler)) { // Change the user prompt pamTransaction.UserPrompt = "my customized user login prompt: "; // Authenticate pamTransaction.Authenticate(); // Ensure that the user isn't locked (etc...) pamTransaction.AccountManagement(); Console.WriteLine("User authentication for use {0} successful.", pamTransaction.UserName); }- .NET Core 3.0
TL/DR: It makes my life easier.
This library uses the native library loading mechanism of .NET Core 3.0. This is required when you want to avoid using libdl.so, which is either only available in a -dev package, has a different name, depending on your operating system or distribution or other problems.
And no: netstandard2.1 doesn't support this API.
