1. Pluggable Authentication Module PAM The new industry standard integrated login framework. PAM is used by system entry components, such as the Common Desktop Environments dtlogin, to authenticate users logging into a Unix system. It provides pluggability for a variety of system-entry services. PAMs ability to stack authentication modules can be used to integrate login with different authentication mechanisms such as RSA, DCE and Kerberos, and thus unify login mechanisms. PAM can also integrate smart card authentication. White paper http://www. gr. osf. org/book/psm-wppr. htm. [OSF-RFC 86. 0 V. Samar, R. Schemers, "Unified Login with Pluggable Authentication Modules PAM", Oct 1995].
pluggable authentication module |
