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Dumb question - what's PAM? To me that means "phone as modem"...
by billybob 16y ago
Dumb question - what's PAM? To me that means "phone as modem"...
- callahad 16y agoPluggable Authentication Modules. It's an auth framework used by many Linux distributions. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluggable_Authentication_Modules http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluggable_Authentication_Module... and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_PAM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_PAM
- xpaulbettsx 16y agoPAM lets you among other things, define new methods of authenticating the user - for example, if I wanted to make my computer log me on whenever it saw my Bluetooth phone in range, I'd write a PAM module