What Is Pam? Or more direct to the point can PAM be removed from an embedded system based upon Debian?
Thanks.
what is PAM
Oct 25, 2004
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Pluggable Authentication Modules
Perhaps, but probabaly not trivial. As far as I know, PAM gives programs easy access to the linux security subsystem. If you remove it completely, then things like login, sshd, etc, may not be able to read /etc/passwd which would mean you couldn't login to access anything. It would be fairly simple to build stand-alone versions of login and friends though, if you really needed to remove all of the PAM suite.
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