Chapter 16: External Authentication

Configuring Adaptive Server for PAM user authentication

enable pam user auth is a new configuration parameter that enables PAM user authentication support. It can be set as follows:

sp_configure "enable pam user auth", 0 | 1 | 2

where:

0 – disables PAM authentication. This is the default.
1 – indicates Adaptive Server will try PAM authentication first, and then fall back to syslogins authentication if PAM authentication fails.
2 – indicates only PAM authentication may be used.

When PAM is enabled, password management is delegated to the PAM service providers.