Pluggable Authentication Modules

Pluggable Authentication Modules, or PAM, is a mechanism to integrate multiple low-level authentication schemes into a high-level application programming interface (API). It allows programs that rely on authentication to be written independent of the underlying authentication scheme.

• Pluggable Authentication Modules [EN] @ Fedora Package

• Pluggable Authentication Modules [EN] @ Wikipedia
• Pluggable Authentication Modules [DE] @ Wikipedia

Installation & Configuration

Files

• /
  • etc/
    • pam.conf

Additional Resources

1 pages found:

• pam access