Letter P

pam - A security tool which provides authentication for applications

Website: http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/index.html
License: GPL or BSD
Vendor: Scientific Linux CERN, http://cern.ch/linux
Description:
PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) is a system security tool that
allows system administrators to set authentication policy without
having to recompile programs that handle authentication.

Packages

pam-0.99.6.2-4.el5.i386 [949 KiB] Changelog by Tomas Mraz (2008-09-17):
- add pam_tty_audit module (#244352)
- pam_cracklib: additional optional checks for password quality (#438994)
- pam_lastlog: display failed login attempts if requested (#438990)
- pam_unix: do not check new passwords through cracklib (#448860)
- pam_unix: clear PAM_AUTHTOK item if new password is bad (#443872)
- comment in the limits.conf manpage that rss limit is ignored (#459624)
- allow larger entries in pammodutil_get functions (#445355)
- pam_tally: do not leak fds in tally_check (#457024)
- pam_loginuid: use correct format when printing uid type (#460263)
- pam_rhosts_auth: correct test for IP address (#461917)

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