RE: does PAM for AS400 exist?

That makes things much clearer for me.  Is it possible to write / install
/ invoke PAMs on AS400?  ...or (if I understand your post) only to write
PAMs on *nix that use EIM (with an appropriate identity mapping in place)
to access an AS400?

-Jared

On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Kurt Goolsbee wrote:

> A PAM is a Pluggable Authentication Module and usually refers to an
> authentication and authorization facility that exists in *nix.  You use
> .conf files to register what PAMS you want to be called to do authentication
> and authorization functions.  JAAS works in much the same way, but it is
> only good for java programs.  Neither of these have anything to do with EIM.
> EIM is used to map an account in one registry, the source registry, to the
> correct account on the target registry.  A PAM could be written to use EIM,
> but by itself, EIM is not a PAM.  OS400 uses EIM to map a Kerberos user
> principal name to the correct OS400 user profile.