[TriLUG] Looking for intro to PAM

[Trey Sizemore]

On Mon Nov 28, 2005 05:10PM, jonc wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 16:33, Trey Sizemore wrote:
> > I'm looking for a good introduction/tutorial on PAM authentication.
> > What it is, the syntax of PAM files, etc.  I've googled, but what I've
> > turned up thus far is a little to deep.
> > 
> > Hopefully someone knows of a better resource.
> 
> We should do a mini-course on PAM!
> 
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/Linux-PAM-html/pam.html
> 
> I remember being in the same spot as you many years ago... and the best
> resource I found at that time were the docs that came with the PAM
> project.  I sacrificed about 18 hours of my life to reading those docs
> and I'm sure the info in them could have been more concisely (and
> logically) presented.
> 
> Not that I regret reading those docs. I've had the good fortune to use
> those concepts (and detailed minutia) many times since then. Still it
> would be good to have some references that make the PAM learning curve a
> bit less steep.
> 
> Jon Carnes
> 

Thanks.  I'll give it a read.

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Trey
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