You will rarely find any course out there that will cover PAM security configuration in Linux. This course will introduce the PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) in Linux. We will go over the background and inner workings of PAM and then also show examples on a live system on how to configure PAM. Students will be able to understand why PAM is important and how to configure it.

What will you learn in this course?

• Account access through PAM
• PAM aware services
• Control flags
• Modules
• Modules interface
• PAM file configuration etc

Who should take this course?

• Linux administrators and beginners
• Anyone interested in learning about security in Linux servers