Hi,
I think you might mean PAM, Pluggable Authentication Modules

david jencks

On 2001.04.26 11:24:13 -0400 Ann W. Harrison wrote:
> Hello all!
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> If you check the archives of this list you will find that
> the discussion of authentication and mapping from an authenticated
> individual to an SQL user has been discussed before. No big
> surprise there.
>
> From that discussion, many of us understood that there is no
> one solution that appeals to everyone - some people like isc4,
> more reasonable people don't. Some applications need very
> tight security - most don't want to pay that price.
>
> What we decided was that a security plug-in is the way to go.
> Establish an API that the engine can use to access a variety
> of authentication and mapping schemes. There's a security
> plug-in on Linux called ... posy? pansy? ... that might be a
> model
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> Regards,
>
> Ann
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