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Pluggable Authentication Module
     
         (PAM) The new industry standard integrated {login}
        {framework}.  PAM is used by system entry components, such as
        the {Common Desktop Environment}'s dtlogin, to authenticate
        users logging into a {Unix} system.  It provides pluggability
        for a variety of system-entry services.  PAM's ability to
        {stack} authentication {modules} can be used to integrate
        {login} with different authentication mechanisms such as
        {RSA}, {DCE} and {Kerberos}, and thus unify login mechanisms.
        PAM can also integrate {smart card} authentication.
     
        {White paper (http://www.gr.osf.org/book/psm-wppr.htm)}.
     
        [OSF-RFC 86.0 V. Samar, R. Schemers, "Unified Login with
        Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM)", Oct 1995].
     
        (1997-07-18)