====== Pluggable Authentication Modules on Debian ======

These notes refer primarily to Debian 9 (Stretch).

  * [[https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch04.en.html|Debian Reference - Chapter 4. Authentication]]

===== Diabling mail notification on login =====

Delete or comment out ''pam_mail.so'' in ''/etc/pam.d/sshd''.

<file sh>
# DISABLED: 2018-12-18 - no need on a single user system
# Print the status of the user's mailbox upon successful login.
#session    optional     pam_mail.so standard noenv # [1]
</file>