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+It's Go!  It's PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules)!  It's GoPAM!
+
+This is a Go wrapper for the PAM application API.  There's not much
+else to be said.  PAM is a simple API and now it's available for use in Go
+applications.
+
+There's an example of a "fake login" program in the examples
+directory.  Look at the pam module's godocs for details about the Go
+API; for a more general PAM application API reference, peep
+
+http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/Linux-PAM-html/adg-interface-by-app-expected.html
+
+In the future, maybe the module API will be wrapped too.  I don't know!
+