diff --git a/open-vm-tools.spec b/open-vm-tools.spec
index 12081d1..8ea1764 100644
--- a/open-vm-tools.spec
+++ b/open-vm-tools.spec
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 
 Name:             open-vm-tools
 Version:          %{toolsversion}
-Release:          3%{?dist}
+Release:          4%{?dist}
 Summary:          Open Virtual Machine Tools for virtual machines hosted on VMware
 License:          GPLv2
 URL:              https://github.com/vmware/%{name}
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ Source1:          %{toolsdaemon}.service
 Source2:          %{vgauthdaemon}.service
 Source3:          run-vmblock\x2dfuse.mount
 Source4:          open-vm-tools.conf
+Source5:          vmtoolsd.pam
 
 %if 0%{?rhel} >= 7
 ExclusiveArch:    x86_64
@@ -212,6 +213,7 @@ install -p -m 644 -D %{SOURCE1} %{buildroot}%{_unitdir}/%{toolsdaemon}.service
 install -p -m 644 -D %{SOURCE2} %{buildroot}%{_unitdir}/%{vgauthdaemon}.service
 install -p -m 644 -D '%{SOURCE3}' %{buildroot}%{_unitdir}/run-vmblock\\x2dfuse.mount
 install -p -m 644 -D %{SOURCE4} %{buildroot}%{_modulesloaddir}/open-vm-tools.conf
+install -p -m 644 -D %{SOURCE5} %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/pam.d/vmtoolsd
 
 # 'make check' in open-vm-tools rebuilds docs and ends up regenerating
 # the font file. We can add %%check secion once 'make check' is fixed
@@ -356,6 +358,9 @@ fi
 %{_bindir}/vmware-vgauth-smoketest
 
 %changelog
+* Sun May 17 2020 Ravindra Kumar <ravindrakumar@vmware.com> - 11.0.5-4
+- Updated PAM configuration file to follow configured authn scheme.
+
 * Tue Mar 24 2020 Ravindra Kumar <ravindrakumar@vmware.com> - 11.0.5-3
 - Use /sbin/ldconfig on older than Fedora 28 and RHEL 8 platforms.
 
diff --git a/vmtoolsd.pam b/vmtoolsd.pam
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..aa3daa0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vmtoolsd.pam
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+#%PAM-1.0
+auth       substack     password-auth
+auth       include      postlogin
+account    required     pam_nologin.so
+account    include      password-auth