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Activate System PAM Debug Mode

The PAM library can provide debug information during execution. After enabling the system to collect debug output, you can use the gathered information to track PAM-API invocations and determine failure points in the current PAM setup. To enable PAM debug output, create an empty /etc/pam_debug file. The PAM library checks for existence of the /etc/pam_debug file and if found, enables syslog output.