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
 
Changes/Suggestions: crb