pam - An extensible library which provides authentication for applications
| Website: | http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/index.html |
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| License: | BSD and GPLv2+ and BSD with advertising |
| Vendor: | Fedora Project |
- Description:
PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) is a system security tool that allows system administrators to set authentication policy without having to recompile programs that handle authentication.
Packages
| pam-1.0.91-6.fc11.src [1.2 MiB] |
Changelog
by Tomas Mraz (2009-04-10):
- add password-auth, fingerprint-auth, and smartcard-auth for applications which can use them namely gdm (#494874) patch by Ray Strode |