About:
Linux-PAM provides a flexible mechanism for authenticating users. It consists of a set of libraries that handle the authentication tasks of applications on the system. The library provides a stable general interface to which privilege-granting programs (such as login and su) defer to perform standard authentication tasks. PAM was invented by SUN Microsystems.

Author:
Andrew Morgan <morgan |at| linux |dot| kernel |dot| org> [contact developer]

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7.90/10.00 (6 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/
Tar/GZ:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/pre/library
Tar/BZ2:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/pre/library
Changelog:
http://pam.cvs.sourceforge.net/pam/Linux-PAM/ChangeLog?view=markup
CVS tree (cvsweb):
http://pam.cvs.sourceforge.net/
Mailing list archive:
https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pam-list

Trove categories: [change]

[Environment]		Console (Text Based)
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Topic]		System

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	0.99.9.0	10-Oct-2007	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
0.99.9.0	Major bugfixes	10-Oct-2007 15:37
0.99.8.1	Minor feature enhancements	26-Jul-2007 13:33
0.99.7.0	Major bugfixes	18-Jan-2007 13:51
0.99.6.3	Minor feature enhancements	08-Sep-2006 09:19
0.99.6.1	Minor bugfixes	11-Aug-2006 13:24
0.99.3.0	N/A	17-Jan-2006 08:33
0.99.2.1	N/A	14-Dec-2005 22:16
0.80	N/A	17-Oct-2005 15:41
0.76	Minor bugfixes	14-Jul-2002 19:30

 Articles referencing this project

• Red Hat: Updated pam packages fix two security flaws
  by Patrick Lenz , in Security
  Sun, Nov 18th 2007 13:18
  
• Red Hat: Updated pam packages that fix two security flaws
  by Patrick Lenz , in Security
  Sun, Nov 11th 2007 00:58
  
• Red Hat: Updated pam packages resolve several security flaws
  by Patrick Lenz , in Security
  Mon, Jun 18th 2007 02:49
  
• Red Hat: Updated pam package fixes a security weakness
  by Patrick Lenz , in Security
  Wed, Oct 26th 2005 10:53
  
• Debian: New PAM packages fix serious security violation in Debian/unstable
  by Patrick Lenz , in Security
  Thu, Oct 17th 2002 15:31