The intended audience for this book is developers who use JPam. It should be able to be used to start from scratch, get up and running quickly, and also be useful for the more complex options.
JPam is a missing piece in the Java - Unix security puzzle. Another natural audience is therefore security specialists.
It is also intended for application and enterprise architects. JPam creates new possibilities. It is not necessary to front Java Application servers with Apache in order to plug in native security. You are no longer limited by the availability of Java implementations of security services.
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JPam has had contributions in the form of forum discussions, feature requests, bug reports, patches and code commits.
Rather than try and list the many hundreds of people who have contributed to JPam in some way it is better to link to the web site where contributions are acknowledged in the following ways: