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		erik_seaberg on May 27, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Don't abuse su for dropping user privileges (2015) Why does PAM have sessions? I thought it was a layer of indirection over whether you’re using a password file or NIS or LDAP to verify passwords.

yrro on May 28, 2023 [–]

PAM provides authentication, authorization, session management and password changing.

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