Subject: Re: PAM for wu-ftpd

From: "C. R. Oldham" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 08:28:21 -0700 ()

On Thu, 16 Jan 1997, Marina Wefer wrote:

> On 16 Jan 97 at 7:58, Norbert Crettol wrote:
> 
> > Sorry, what is "pam" ?
> 
> Good question...

Pluggable Authentication Modules.

They are libraries that are supposed to unify the authentication methods
in any Unix system so new authentication methods can be added to all the
programs installed just by adding a new library.

AIX has had them for some time.

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