howdy 2.x installs its CLI under root-only /usr/lib/security/howdy/ with
/usr/bin/howdy symlinked into it, so `command -v howdy` reports "not found"
for a normal user — the script wrongly thought howdy wasn't installed and
tried to reinstall it. Detect via the symlink and pacman -Qq instead; all
ops already run through `sudo howdy`.
This version also has no pam_howdy.so — it authenticates via pam_python.so
loading /usr/lib/security/howdy/pam.py. Switch the emitted PAM block to that
module and add pam_python_require() to install the AUR `pam-python`
dependency, replacing the dead pam_howdy.so existence check.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Amir Alexander Abdelbaki
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