On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 00:34, Adam Kosmin wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm looking at my pam configuration and noticed something odd in > /etc/pam.d/other > > Each line contains a reference to a path that does not exist. For > example: > > auth required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_deny.so > > My filesystem does not contain a directory path of /lib/security/$ISA so > I can't help but become curious. $ISA is a variable reference which, under normal circumstances, usually expands to nothing so, in fact, you're referencing "/lib/security//pam_deny.so" or "/lib/security/pam_deny.so"