Some Threads

• Thread: optionally using unix passwords for OpenACS auth
  
• Thread: External Authentication
  
• Thread: Pluggable authentication for OACS: moving towards a concrete plan

Some Links and Important Documents

• Document: Lars Pind's Draft Proposal
• Document: Andrew Grumet's Draft Proposal
• Document: Making Login Services Independent of Authentication Technologies - Sun Microsystems (PAM)
  Document: The Open Knowledge Initiatives Authentication Specification
• Link: Java Authentication and Authorization Service
• Link: Linux-PAM modules etc. page
  
• Link: Cross-institutional authentication and authorization services: Sibboleth, Liberty Alliance Project, and .NET Passport

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