This is a library making it easy to patch applications to send commands to
PWMD. Features include:

	* Thread safe: POSIX or libpth2
	* Asynchronous pinentry when threading isn't possible
	* Secure remote connections over SSH using libssh2
	* Secure memory functions which applications may also use

There is an included command line client 'pwmc' that reads protocol commands
from stdin and sends them to the pwmd server. Read libpwmd(3) or pwmc(1) for
all the details. Read doc/tutorial.html for an introduction to pwmd and pwmc
usage.


Requirements:
    C99 compiler - http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/
    		   Is a good choice.

    libgpg-error - http://www.gnupg.org/
	           libassuan (and pwmd) returns gpg error codes.

    libpth2      - http://www.gnu.org/software/pth/pth.html
		   Portable multi-threading library. Optional.

    libreadline  - http://www.gnu.org/software/readline/
                   For an interactive shell-like interface to pwmc. Optional.
    
    pwmd         - http://pwmd.sourceforge.net/
		   Version 2.18 or later (2.19 or later is recommended).

If you want to do remote SSH connections to a pwmd server:

    libssh2      - http://libssh2.org/
    		   Version 1.2.7 or later is required.

    libc-ares    - http://c-ares.haxx.se/
		   For asynchronous DNS lookups. Version 1.5.2 has been tested
		   to work.

For functions that use a local pinentry (and not pwmd's pinentry) and if
--disable-pinentry is not passed to configure, then you'll need:

    pinentry     - ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/pinentry/
		   There are various interfaces for passphrase entry:
		   console/curses, X11/GTK2, X11/QT. The X11 versions also
		   support console/curses. Version 0.7.5 or later is required.

    cracklib2    - http://sourceforge.net/projects/cracklib
		   If --enable-quality is passed to ./configure then a
		   passphrase quality meter is used with the local pinentry.
		   Optional.


GIT Repository
--------------
There is a public GIT repository available at repo.or.cz. Anonymous checkouts
can be done by:

    git clone git://repo.or.cz/libpwmd.git

The gitweb interface can be viewed at http://repo.or.cz/w/libpwmd.git.


Mailing lists
-------------
For libpwmd:
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libpwmd-users
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libpwmd-devel

And for pwmd:
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pwmd-users
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pwmd-devel


Ben Kibbey <bjk@luxsci.net>
http://libpwmd.sourceforge.net/
