Activate Linux PAM

From: wolf_guru (laith.said_at_mail.dk)
Date: 12/30/04 

Date: 30 Dec 2004 04:24:41 -0800

Hello,

I have a linux box that is not running PAM. It is a minimised
distribution of RedHat 8.0. I want to set this to start using PAM. How
can I tell Linux to look into PAM configuration files (/etc/pam.d ?!)
Best Regards

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