A pluggable authentication module (PAM) is a mechanism to integrate multiple low-level authentication schemes into a high-level application programming interface (API). PAM allows programs that rely on authentication to be written independently of the underlying authentication scheme.

pam_faillock: added nodelay option to not set pam_fail_delay. pam_wheel: use pam_modutil_user_in_group to check for the group membership with getgrouplist where it is available.

The Linux Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) provide a framework for system-wide user authentication. To quote the project: PAM provides a way to develop programs that are independent of authentication scheme.

PAM stands for Pluggable Authentication Modules and is used to perform various types of tasks involving authenticaction, authorization and some modification (for example password change).

Name. pam.conf, pam.d - PAM configuration files. Description. When a PAM aware privilege granting These files list the PAMs that will do the authentication tasks required by this service, and...

PAM uses a pluggable, modular architecture, which affords the system administrator a great deal of flexibility in setting authentication policies for the system. In most situations, the default PAM...

Linux-PAM. This is the primary distribution site for the Linux-PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules for Linux) project.

PAM was defined and developed in 1995 by Vipin Samar and Charlie Lai of Sun Microsystems, and The terminology surrounding PAM is rather confused. Neither Samar and Lai's original paper nor the...

Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM). pam_passwdqc (homepage, wiki, screenshots pam_passwdqc is a simple password strength checking module for PAM-aware password changing...