Improve Security with Linux PAM

Posted by IdaAshley on Feb 28, 2008 9:32 PM EDT
IBM/developerWorks; By Robb R. Romans
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Linux Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) can help you protect world-writeable shared directories from abuse. This article for Linux system administrators lays out the steps to enable namespaces with PAM. The pam_namespace module creates a separate namespace for users on your system when they login to protect users from several types of security attacks.

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this seems way complicated tuxchick 4 2,027 Mar 1, 2008 9:05 AM

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