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From: Saint Neon <neo_chanakya@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: OT: password management
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 07:22:41 -0800 (PST)
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--- Miguel Gonz=E1lez Casta=F1os <mgc@tid.es> wrote:
> dear all,
>=20
>  I would like to know how you guys solve the problem
> about how to
> manage passwords of a bunch of accounts in different
> servers in a safe
> way of course (generating new passwords,
> save/retrieve them, etc) but
> easyly accesable at
> the same time...

PAM (Pluggable Application Modules) provide a
centralized mechanism for authenticating all services.
It applies to login, rlogin, telnet, rsh, PPP, su
among others. In fact, PAM can be used for any linux
application. The best documentation is available at

http://www.kernel.org/linux/libs/pam/

Neon.


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