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Re:Show HN: A fork of sudo with Touch ID support by robinson-wall on Monday October 31, 2016 @06:43AM (#12835638)
Except PAM stands for "Pluggable Authentication Modules" (as in "PAM Library") - plural.

You then write a module for the PAM library, so it makes the most sense to call it a "PAM Module", even if there is some redundancy in the acronym.

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Re:Show HN: A fork of sudo with Touch ID support by colund on Monday October 31, 2016 @07:05AM (#12835725)
minitech already said that?
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