RE: does PAM for AS400 exist?

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.

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Pluta
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 9:14 AM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: does PAM for AS400 exist?

> From: Pat Barber
> 
> At the risk of sounding dumb as a brick, just what are
> you talking about ???

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:

http://java.sun.com/security/jaas/doc/pam.html

Joe

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