>>>> All of the PAM modules are named pam_xxxxx.so so the configuration file only needs to specify the name, ie the xxxxx. >> It's like buying a shiny new penn

>>>> All of the PAM modules are named pam_xxxxx.so so the configuration file only needs to specify the name, ie the xxxxx. >> It's like buying a shiny new penny for a dollar. > That's bonk. PAM significantly simplified the ecosystem... That's not what I was talking about at all. I wasn't talking about PAM itself, but the commenter's impulse to use an abbreviated name of the module in the config rather than the module's actual name. PAM did that right by using the full name in my opinion.