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    <h1>Recommended update for pam</h1>

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            <th>Announcement ID:</th>
            <td>SUSE-RU-2026:22359-1</td>
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            <th>Release Date:</th>
            <td>2026-06-24T21:38:49Z</td>
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            <th>Rating:</th>
            <td>moderate</td>
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            <th>References:</th>
            <td>
                <ul>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1245524">bsc#1245524</a>
                        </li>
                    
                    
                </ul>
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            <th>Affected Products:</th>
            <td>
                <ul class="list-group">
                    
                        <li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0</li>
                    
                        <li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 16.0</li>
                    
                </ul>
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    <p>An update that has one fix can now be installed.</p>

    


    
        <h2>Description:</h2>
    
    <p>This update for pam fixes the following issues:</p>
<ul>
<li>pam_mkhomedir: building with vendordir option allows fetching skeleton directory
  from the vendor directory when creating the user home directory (bsc#1245524)</li>
<li>disable unix_chkpwd by default, only used as fallback again</li>
<li>pam_modutil_get*: overwrite password at free</li>
</ul>



    

    <h2>Patch Instructions:</h2>
    <p>
        To install this SUSE  update use the SUSE recommended
        installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".<br/>

        Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
    </p>
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            <li class="list-group-item">
                SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0
                
                    
                        <br/>
                        <code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLES-16.0-1064=1</code>
                    
                    
                
            </li>
        
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                SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 16.0
                
                    
                        <br/>
                        <code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLES-16.0-1064=1</code>
                    
                    
                
            </li>
        
    </ul>

    <h2>Package List:</h2>
    <ul>
        
            
                <li>
                    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
                    <ul>
                        
                            <li>pam-1.7.1-160000.4.1</li>
                        
                            <li>pam-extra-1.7.1-160000.4.1</li>
                        
                            <li>pam-debuginfo-1.7.1-160000.4.1</li>
                        
                            <li>pam-devel-1.7.1-160000.4.1</li>
                        
                            <li>pam-extra-debuginfo-1.7.1-160000.4.1</li>
                        
                    </ul>
                </li>
            
                <li>
                    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0 (noarch)
                    <ul>
                        
                            <li>pam-manpages-1.7.1-160000.4.1</li>
                        
                            <li>pam-doc-1.7.1-160000.4.1</li>
                        
                    </ul>
                </li>
            
                <li>
                    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x)
                    <ul>
                        
                            <li>pam-debugsource-1.7.1-160000.4.1</li>
                        
                            <li>pam-full-src-debugsource-1.7.1-160000.4.1</li>
                        
                    </ul>
                </li>
            
        
            
                <li>
                    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 16.0 (ppc64le x86_64)
                    <ul>
                        
                            <li>pam-1.7.1-160000.4.1</li>
                        
                            <li>pam-debuginfo-1.7.1-160000.4.1</li>
                        
                            <li>pam-extra-1.7.1-160000.4.1</li>
                        
                            <li>pam-devel-1.7.1-160000.4.1</li>
                        
                            <li>pam-extra-debuginfo-1.7.1-160000.4.1</li>
                        
                    </ul>
                </li>
            
                <li>
                    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 16.0 (ppc64le)
                    <ul>
                        
                            <li>pam-debugsource-1.7.1-160000.4.1</li>
                        
                            <li>pam-full-src-debugsource-1.7.1-160000.4.1</li>
                        
                    </ul>
                </li>
            
                <li>
                    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 16.0 (noarch)
                    <ul>
                        
                            <li>pam-manpages-1.7.1-160000.4.1</li>
                        
                            <li>pam-doc-1.7.1-160000.4.1</li>
                        
                    </ul>
                </li>
            
        
    </ul>

    
        <h2>References:</h2>
        <ul>
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1245524">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1245524</a>
                    </li>
                
            
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