what is PAM

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- jingle_dell
  
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19 years ago

Mon, Oct 25, 2004 4:44 AM

What Is Pam? Or more direct to the point can PAM be removed from an embedded system based upon Debian?

Thanks.

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- Damion de Soto
  
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19 years ago

Mon, Oct 25, 2004 6:57 AM

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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