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Troubleshoot an Issue with the Pluggable Authentication Module
The Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) provides low-level authentication integration for other applications and services, such as Samba. When these services break in a way that interrupts our ability to authenticate, we should know how to discover the source of the issue and recover efficiently. In this lab, we troubleshoot a broken Samba installation upon discovering we cannot log in as the `cloud_user`. _This lab is not approved or sponsored by Red Hat._

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Challenge
Reproduce the Issue
Attempt to access Samba as the
cloud_user
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Discover the Source of the Error
Review logs and verify package integrity to discover the source of the issue.
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Resolve the Issue
Resolve the issue by recovering a working Samba PAM configuration.
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