PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) is a flexible mechanism that allows system administrators to choose how applications authenticate users. This demo illustrates how to integrate a custom script ...

This provides a pam_okta PAM module (Pluggable Authentication Modules module?) and a companion pam_oktad daemon to support authenticating users via Okta using the Device Authorization and Direct ...

Two-factor authentication aims to solve the decades-old problem of password-based attacks, such as brute-force attacks and key-logging attacks. In Linux, two-factor authentication can be accomplished ...

Authentication is a mechanism that verifies whether an entity is who it claims to be. On a Linux system, applications, such as su, passwd or login, are used to authenticate users before they are given ...

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a previously undocumented Linux backdoor dubbed Plague that has managed to evade detection for a year. "The implant is built as a malicious PAM (Pluggable ...