Linux Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) is a suite of libraries that allow a Linux system administrator to configure methods to authenticate users...
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stand-alone open-source infrastructure, PAM first appeared in Red Hat Linux 3.0.4 in August 1996 in the Linux PAM project. PAM is currently supported in the AIX...
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Snow Leopard), and offered as an alternative to Linux PAM in certain Linux distributions[which?]. OpenPAM was developed for the FreeBSD Project by Dag-Erling...
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+0130 2019 "linux-pam source code". Github. Retrieved 2025-04-21. "linux-pam NEWS document". github. Retrieved 2025-04-21. lastlog(8) – Linux Administration...
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Look up pam in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pam or PAM may refer to: Pam, Iran, a village in Markazi Province Piedmont Atlantic Megaregion (PAM), United...
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Rust for Linux is an ongoing project started in 2020 to add Rust as a programming language that can be used within the Linux kernel software, which has...
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Red Hat Linux was a widely used commercial open-source Linux distribution created by Red Hat until its discontinuation in 2004. Early releases of Red Hat...
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Slackware (redirect from Slackware Linux)
Slackware is a Linux distribution created by Patrick Volkerding in 1993. Originally based on Softlanding Linux System (SLS), Slackware has been the basis...
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reboot (respectively). These files are not set by any given PAM module (such as pam_unix.so or pam_sss.so) but are set by the application performing the operation...
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Systemd (redirect from Systemd/Linux)
suite for system and service management on Linux built to unify service configuration and behavior across Linux distributions. Its main component is an init...
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Fork bomb (redirect from Linux fork bomb)
would limit the affected user to a maximum of thirty owned processes. On PAM-enabled systems, this limit can also be set in /etc/security/limits.conf...
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System Security Services Daemon (category Linux software projects)
Security Services Daemon (SSSD) is software originally developed for the Linux operating system (OS) that provides a set of daemons to manage access to...
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management / access management (PIM/PAM), privileged remote access, and vulnerability management products for UNIX, Linux, Windows and macOS operating systems...
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Proxmox Virtual Environment (category Linux distributions)
Martin Maurer, two Linux developers, discovered OpenVZ had no backup tool or management GUI. KVM was also appearing at the same time in Linux, and was added...
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Octopussy (software) (category Linux security software)
Netscreen FW, Juniper Netscreen NSM, LDAP, Linux AppArmor, Linux Auditd, Linux IPTables, Linux Kernel, Linux PAM, Linux System, Monit, MySQL, Nagios, Neoteris/Juniper...
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Privileged Access Management (PAM) is a type of identity management and branch of cybersecurity that focuses on the control, monitoring, and protection...
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2K (company) (redirect from PAM development)
on content for games. The launcher was criticized for breaking games on Linux, including on the Steam Deck. Future 2K releases also utilized the launcher...
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into several operating systems, namely Microsoft Windows, macOS and most Linux operating systems, while the portable version is available as a package...
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Secure Shell (redirect from SSH without password in Linux)
on most modern operating systems, including macOS, most distributions of Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and OpenVMS. Notably, versions of Windows...
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most distributions of Linux and BSDs. In 2007, Red Hat forked vixie-cron 4.1 to the cronie project, adding features such as PAM and SELinux support. In...
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NX technology (category Linux windowing system-related software)
used over slow connections such as dial-up modems. Originally targeting Linux-based operating systems, the core compression technology, designed by Gian...
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world-readable passwd file. For local files, this is usually /etc/shadow on Linux and Unix systems, or /etc/master.passwd on BSD systems; each is readable...
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sysadmin. On many Linux distributions, the chsh command is a PAM-aware application. As such, its behaviour can be tailored, using PAM configuration options...
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OpenVPN source code there are some examples of such plug-ins, including a PAM authentication plug-in. Several third-party plug-ins also exist to authenticate...
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Cherokee (web server) (category Web server software for Linux)
Cherokee is an open-source cross-platform web server that runs on Linux, BSD variants, Solaris, OS X, and Windows. It is a lightweight, high-performance...
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IBM Db2 (redirect from Db2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows)
platforms, including OS/2, UNIX, and MS Windows servers, and then Linux (including Linux on IBM Z) and PDAs. This process occurred through the 1990s. An...
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XnView (category Linux software)
version of XnView, called XnView MP, is available for Windows, macOS and Linux. XnView has received five cows from Tucows. In 2006 Sveriges Television...
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- Linux.com". Linux.com - The source for Linux Information. Archived from the original on 2016-03-16. Retrieved 2015-05-03. New features in Linux Mint...
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kernel, device drivers, userland utilities, and documentation, as opposed to Linux only delivering a kernel and drivers, and relying on third-parties such...
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September 2018. "FreshPorts -- security/oath-toolkit: Library, tools, and PAM module for OATH authentication". FreeBSD Ports. "security/oath-toolkit -...
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