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From: "Noah Davidson" <Noah@oopz.com>
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I have been reading about PAM.  I am completely confused how PAM can
authenticate users.  We now have users in the standard Unix password
file.  The server that I am looking into implementing this on is a
sendmail server.  the biggest question is how can the users
authenticate?  Does PAM authenticate the users, or does PAM use
something else to actually authenticate like mysql.  Can someone please
help me, also can someone point me somewhere I can get this kind of
information?

Thanks
Noah

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