The Linux PAM package contains Pluggable Authentication Modules used by the local system administrator to control how application programs authenticate users.

Please look at the ci/install-dependencies.sh for the necessary
prerequisite packages to be able to build the Linux-PAM. The script
is targeted at Debian based Linux distributions so the package
names and availability might differ on other distributions.

If you check out the sources from git, install Autotools and generate
configuration scripts, ensuring you have the minimum packages installed,
the ci scripts may help here:

      ./autogen.sh

Then compile:
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