---
name: "pamtest"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "libpam-dotfile"
version: "0.7-4"
release: "Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/pamtest"
---

# pamtest(1)

test pam configuration

## NAME

pamtest - test pam configuration

## SYNOPSIS

**pamtest** *service \[username\]*

## DESCRIPTION

**pamtest is a utility to test authentication through PAM. It will try to authenticate against the pecified service, and print a message if this was successful or not.**

**pamtest is part of pam-dotfile.**

## AUTHOR

**pam-dotfile was written by Lennart Poettering \<mzcnzqbgsvyr (at) 0pointer (dot) de\>. pam-dotfile is available at http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/pam\_dotfile/**

## COMMENTS

This man page was written using **xmltoman (1)** by Oliver Kurth.