PAM explanation

bart · n00b Joined: 13 Apr 2002 Posts: 60

IMHO is PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) one of the most unclear parts of the current Gentoo distro. I've tried more than once to understand the principles, but I still don't understand it.
I really like it if somebody write some clear documentation about it. A bit in the style of the other Gentoo doc's, which are very clear.

Nitro · Posted: Thu May 09, 2002 11:27 pm Post subject:

I know this isn't the Gentoo style you were talking about, but http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/ has quite a bit of information about PAM. PAM is pretty widely accepted, the only popular distro that I can think of that doesn't support PAM out of the box is Slackware.
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JefP@@ · Posted: Fri May 10, 2002 2:19 pm Post subject:

thx Nitro

bart · n00b Joined: 13 Apr 2002 Posts: 60

Hehe, I grow up with Slack. And my LFS playbox also don't have PAM. It's something new for me

In the Gentoo security doc I found also some info about PAM.

Thanks

Nitro · Posted: Fri May 10, 2002 6:42 pm Post subject: