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'\" t
.\" Title: pam
-.\" Author: [FIXME: author] [see http://docbook.sf.net/el/author]
-.\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets v1.79.1 <http://docbook.sf.net/>
-.\" Date: 09/03/2021
+.\" Author: [FIXME: author] [see http://www.docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/author]
+.\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets v1.79.2 <http://docbook.sf.net/>
+.\" Date: 05/07/2023
.\" Manual: Linux-PAM Manual
-.\" Source: Linux-PAM Manual
+.\" Source: Linux-PAM
.\" Language: English
.\"
-.TH "PAM" "8" "09/03/2021" "Linux-PAM Manual" "Linux-PAM Manual"
+.TH "PAM" "8" "05/07/2023" "Linux\-PAM" "Linux\-PAM Manual"
.\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
.\" * Define some portability stuff
.\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -44,8 +44,8 @@ and
The principal feature of the PAM approach is that the nature of the authentication is dynamically configurable\&. In other words, the system administrator is free to choose how individual service\-providing applications will authenticate users\&. This dynamic configuration is set by the contents of the single
\fBLinux\-PAM\fR
configuration file
-/etc/pam\&.conf\&. Alternatively, the configuration can be set by individual configuration files located in the
-/etc/pam\&.d/
+/etc/pam\&.conf\&. Alternatively and preferably, the configuration can be set by individual configuration files located in a
+pam\&.d
directory\&. The presence of this directory will cause
\fBLinux\-PAM\fR
to
@@ -120,17 +120,6 @@ vendor configuration directory\&. Files in
/etc/pam\&.d
override files with the same name in this directory\&.
.RE
-.PP
-<vendordir>/pam\&.d
-.RS 4
-the
-\fBLinux\-PAM\fR
-vendor configuration directory\&. Files in
-/etc/pam\&.d
-and
-/usr/lib/pam\&.d
-override files with the same name in this directory\&. Only available if Linux\-PAM was compiled with vendordir enabled\&.
-.RE
.SH "ERRORS"
.PP
Typically errors generated by the