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 What is the difference between PAM server, PAM and PIM

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Willy RUKEMA posted Jun 04, 2025 04:02 AM

I would like to ask you why and what is the difference between PAM server, PAM and PIM, i support PIM but i face the many cases of pam server what is the relation between these three.

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Broadcom Employee Joseph Lutz posted Jun 04, 2025 10:38 AM

There are serveral differences in specific technologies used but they are all related in the resulting functionality. PIM (Privileged Identity Manager) was the original access control program which was replaced with a combination of PAM( Privileged Access Manager) and PAM SC ( Privileged Access Manager Server Control) programs. Later PAM and PAM SC were combined into PAM starting in PAM 4.0. Broadcom still supports both PAM SC and PAM separately and together but you should be aware that PIM is End of Service this September ( EOS Dates ). You should consider upgrading before too long.