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4 <section id='pam.conf-desc'>
5   <para>
6     When a <emphasis>PAM</emphasis> aware privilege granting application
7     is started, it activates its attachment to the PAM-API. This
8     activation performs a number of tasks, the most important being the
9     reading of the configuration file(s): <filename>/etc/pam.conf</filename>.
10     Alternatively, this may be the contents of the
11     <filename>/etc/pam.d/</filename> directory. The presence of this
12     directory will cause Linux-PAM to ignore
13     <filename>/etc/pam.conf</filename>.
14   </para>
15   <para>
16     These files list the <emphasis>PAM</emphasis>s that will do the
17     authentication tasks required by this service, and the appropriate
18     behavior of the PAM-API in the event that individual
19     <emphasis>PAM</emphasis>s fail.
20   </para>
21 </section>