RE: does PAM for AS400 exist?

So it's not a cooking spray? :)

BTW, another IT-related PAM is the Protocol Analysis Module in an
Intrusion Detection System. Of which there is now (at least) one
available for the ASiSeries400i5.

John A. Jones
Americas Security Officer
Jones Lang LaSalle, Inc.
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-----Original Message-----
From: David Gibbs [mailto:david@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 9:12 AM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: does PAM for AS400 exist?

Joe Pluta wrote:
> As a fellow brick, Pat, I did a little research. As close as I can 
> tell, PAM is the Java version of EIM.  Just google for pluggable 
> authentication module and you'll get a ton of hits:

I think the PAM he's referring to is what you can find on *nix systems
... it allows you to specify different authentication mechanisms for
various services.

More information can be found at
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/Linux-PAM-html/pam.html or
http://tinyurl.com/2dptr

david


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