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<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" version="5.0" xml:id="pam.conf-desc">
<para>
When a <emphasis>PAM</emphasis> 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): <filename>/etc/pam.conf</filename>.
Alternatively and preferably, the configuration can be set by individual
configuration files located in a <filename>pam.d</filename> directory.
The presence of this directory will cause
<emphasis remap="B">Linux-PAM</emphasis> to
<emphasis remap="I">ignore</emphasis> <filename>/etc/pam.conf</filename>.
</para>
<para>
These files list the <emphasis>PAM</emphasis>s that will do the
authentication tasks required by this service, and the appropriate
behavior of the PAM-API in the event that individual
<emphasis>PAM</emphasis>s fail.
</para>
</section>
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