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]
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 Pluggable Authentication Module (Linux, LISA)
PAM Programmable Attribute Maps (DRAM, PCI)