Linux PAM Administration

Everything you need to know about Linux PAM Administration

What's Inside

What will I learn

  • Account access through PAM
  • PAM aware services
  • Control flags
  • Modules
  • Modules interface
  • PAM file configuration etc.

Course Description

You will rarely find any course out there that will cover PAM security configuration in Linux. This course will introduce the PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) in Linux. We will go over the background and inner workings of PAM and then also show examples on a live system on how to configure PAM. Students will be able understand why PAM is important and how to configure it.


Who is the target audience

  • Linux administrators and beginners
  • Anyone interested in learning about security in Linux servers

Course Curriculum

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Imran Afzal

Imran Afzal has over 20 years of experience in Systems administration, engineering, management, entrepreneurship, teaching and public speaking.

Currently Imran manages a large team of systems engineers and administrators globally. He started his career with Time Warner (New York City) in 2000 as a systems administrator. That is where he began his career in IT. He was involved in deploying technologies like DTV, VOD, Cable Cards, PPV, IPTV etc.


He has utilized IT skills in many fortune 500 companies such as financial firm, fashion industry, tech media industry etc. He spearheaded projects like datacenter migration, introduction and deployment of VMWare, monitoring tools implementation, Amazon cloud migration and many more. His professional expertise is in Linux, VMWare, Windows, technical documentation, training, project management, change management etc.

Imran earned his bachelor’s in Computer Information Systems from Baruch College, City University of New York as an honor student. He earned his MBA from New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) in operation management and IT.

Some of his certifications are in Linux Systems Management, UNIX Operating Systems, Linux System Administration, System Internals, VMWare Certified Professional, RHCSA and Windows Server Certified


Imran has been teaching since 2010 and provides onsite and online training on many IT subjects. He has the highest rated online courses with 500,000+ students worldwide. He has helped almost 1000+ students to land a job in IT.

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