Avoid the failure: | mkdir -p /etc/security/namespace.d | mkdir: cannot create directory `/etc/security/namespace.d': Permission denied if /etc/security/namespace.d doesn't exist. The DESTDIR prefix is missing. RP 2012/8/19 Upstream-Status: Pending Index: Linux-PAM-1.1.6/modules/pam_namespace/Makefile.am =================================================================== --- Linux-PAM-1.1.6.orig/modules/pam_namespace/Makefile.am 2012-08-15 11:08:43.000000000 +0000 +++ Linux-PAM-1.1.6/modules/pam_namespace/Makefile.am 2012-08-19 12:25:32.311038943 +0000 @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ secureconf_SCRIPTS = namespace.init install-data-local: - mkdir -p $(namespaceddir) + mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(namespaceddir) endif