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When a PAM aware privilege granting application
is started, it activates its attachment to the PAM-API. This
activation performs a number of tasks, the most important being the
reading of the configuration file(s): /etc/pam.conf.
Alternatively, this may be the contents of the
/etc/pam.d/ directory. The presence of this
directory will cause Linux-PAM to ignore
/etc/pam.conf.
These files list the PAMs that will do the authentication tasks required by this service, and the appropriate behavior of the PAM-API in the event that individual PAMs fail.