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<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><title>Chapter 4. The Linux-PAM configuration file</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.78.1"><link rel="home" href="Linux-PAM_SAG.html" title="The Linux-PAM System Administrators' Guide"><link rel="up" href="Linux-PAM_SAG.html" title="The Linux-PAM System Administrators' Guide"><link rel="prev" href="sag-overview.html" title="Chapter 3. Overview"><link rel="next" href="sag-configuration-file.html" title="4.1. Configuration file syntax"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Chapter 4. The Linux-PAM configuration file</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="sag-overview.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center"> </th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="sag-configuration-file.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="chapter"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h1 class="title"><a name="sag-configuration"></a>Chapter 4. The Linux-PAM configuration file</h1></div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl class="toc"><dt><span class="section"><a href="sag-configuration-file.html">4.1. Configuration file syntax</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="sag-configuration-directory.html">4.2. Directory based configuration</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="sag-configuration-example.html">4.3. Example configuration file entries</a></span></dt></dl></div><p>
When a <span class="emphasis"><em>PAM</em></span> 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): <code class="filename">/etc/pam.conf</code>.
Alternatively, this may be the contents of the
<code class="filename">/etc/pam.d/</code> directory. The presence of this
directory will cause Linux-PAM to ignore
<code class="filename">/etc/pam.conf</code>.
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These files list the <span class="emphasis"><em>PAM</em></span>s that will do the
authentication tasks required by this service, and the appropriate
behavior of the PAM-API in the event that individual
<span class="emphasis"><em>PAM</em></span>s fail.
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