Pluggable Authentication Mode (PAM)

A pluggable authentication module (PAM) is a system that integrates multiple low-level authentication schemes into a high-level application programming interface (API). PAM allows programs that rely on authentication to be written independently of the underlying authentication scheme.

PAM is currently supported in the AIX operating system, DragonFly BSD,[1] FreeBSD, HP-UX, Linux, macOS, NetBSD and Solaris. And there are later, non-ratified standards, such as OpenPAM.

PAM authentication includes the following fields:

Fields	Field Explanation
PAM System *	Opens a list of the supported existing PAM systems (such as Delinea Integration)
PAM Endpoint *	The path of the endpoint corresponds and retrieves the secret from the PAM system.
PAM Secret Auth Type *	Select the supported method to integrate to any of the selected source systems. Authentication details of the Source system can be found in their respective documentation. For instance, ServiceNow Basic and OAuth are the methods that are currently supported. If the user for example selects Basic then needs to fill the correct json paths for username and password based on the secret template. This ensures that Connector will extract the original username and password from the PAM system.