PAM auth provider for Synapse

Allows Synapse to use UNIX accounts through PAM.

Installation

For Debian, packages are available on the releases page.

For other distributions, install with ./setup.py install.

Example Synapse config:

password_providers:
  - module: "pam_auth_provider.PAMAuthProvider"
    config:
      create_users: true
      skip_user_check: false

The create_users key specifies whether to create Matrix accounts for valid system accounts.

The skip_user_check key can be used to skip verifying existence of the user with NSS, in case PAM uses a different user database.