pam

9 definitions found

pam - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  pam \pam\, n. [From Palm victory; cf. trump, fr. triumph, and
     perh. fr. F. pamphile from Pamphile, a man's name.]
     1. The knave of clubs. [Obs.] --Pope.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. A card game in which the jack of clubs is trump.
        [PJC]

  Pam \Pam\, prop. n.
     A form of the female given name Pamela.
     [PJC]

pam - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Pluggable Authentication Module
  PAM
  
     <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.
  
     White paper (http://gr.osf.org/book/psm-wppr.htm).
  
     [OSF-RFC 86.0 V. Samar, R. Schemers, "Unified Login with
     Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM)", Oct 1995].
  
     (1997-07-18)
  

  Pam
  
     <language> A toy ALGOL-like language used in "Formal
     Specification of Programming Languages: A Panoramic Primer",
     F.G. Pagan, P-H 1981.
  
     (1996-12-23)
  

pam - V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) :

  PAM
         Paging Area Memory
         

  PAM
         Pluggable Authentication Module (Linux, LISA)
         

  PAM
         Programmable Attribute Maps (DRAM, PCI)
         

  PAM
         Primary Access Method (BS2000)
         

  PAM
         Pulse Amplification Modulation