pwhistory_helper
The purpose of the helper is to enable tighter confinement of login and password changing services. The helper is thus called only when SELinux is enabled on the system.
The interface of the helper - command line options, and input/output data format are internal to the pam_pwhistory module and it should not be called directly from applications.
Written by Tomas Mraz based on the code originally in pam_pwhistory and pam_unix modules.