ALL meanings of pam
pam
P p - abbreviation Technical meaning of PAM Pluggable Authentication Module 3
- noun Definition of pam in Technology (language) A toy ALGOL-like language used in "Formal Specification of Programming Languages: A Panoramic Primer", F.G. Pagan, P-H 1981. 1
- noun pam a female given name, form of Pamela. 1
- noun Definition of pam in Technology (security) (PAM) The new industry standard integrated login framework. PAM is used by system entry components, such as the Common Desktop Environment's dtlogin, to authenticate users logging into a Unix system. It provides pluggability for a variety of system-entry services. PAM's ability to stack authentication modules can be used to integrate login with different authentication mechanisms such as RSA, DCE and Kerberos, and thus unify login mechanisms. PAM can also integrate smart card authentication. 1
- noun pam (in cards) the knave of clubs 0
- abbreviation PAM pamphlet 0