This document was written by Andrew G. Morgan (morgan@parc.power.net) with many contributions from Craig S. Bell, Derrick J. Brashear, Ben Buxton, Oliver Crow, Marc Ewing, Cristian Gafton, Eric Hester, Eric Jacksch, Michael K. Johnson, David Kinchlea, Elliot Lee, Al Longyear, Marek Michalkiewicz, Aleph One, Sean Reifschneider, Eric Troan, Theodore Ts'o, Jeff Uphoff, Ronald Wahl, John Wilmes, Joseph S. D. Yao and Alex O. Yuriev.
Thanks are also due to Sun Microsystems, especially to Vipin Samar and Charlie Lai for their advice. At an early stage in the development of Linux-PAM, Sun graciously made the documentation for their implementation of PAM available. This act greatly accelerated the development of Linux-PAM.