How To Suppress Excessive Logging by PAM

Contents: Linux Tags: Ubuntu PAM PAM ( Linux Pluggable Authentication Modules ) has become very verbose in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, causing excessive logging of various events. This has the annoying side effect of making the logs too big, and hard to find information in. It also causes log summarizing programs, such as Logwatch , to generate larger reports. The goal of this page is to detail how to…