64-Bit PAM

The Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) give system administrators the flexibility of choosing any authentication service available on the system to perform authentication. The framework interface is implemented by the library /usr/lib/libpam.1. New authentication service modules can be plugged in and made available without modifying the applications. The authentication services are implemented by their own loadable modules whose paths are specified through the /etc/pam.conf and /etc/pam_user.conf file.

Summary of Change

In HP-UX 11i v1.6, IPF support for the 64-bit PAM libraries has been added.

Details of Change

In order for PAM to support multiple instruction set architectures (i.e. 32/64-bit IPF/PA), we implemented Corrigendum U039 of the PAM Standard in release HP-UX 11i v1.6. Refer to:

http://www.opengroup.org/pubs/corrigenda/u039f.htm

In HP-UX 11i v1.6, IPF support for the 64-bit PAM libraries has been added.

	NOTE: The mixing of 32 and 64-bit is not allowed. For example, a 32-bit application cannot execute 64-bit library code.

Impact

There are no impacts.

Compatibility

There are no compatibility issues.

Performance

There are no performance issues.

Obsolescence

Not applicable.

Documentation

No documentation changes were necessary.