docs(pam): smoke-test recipe + test PAM stack file (Task B2)

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# Testing pam_authforge_pending.so
This module gates first-login enrollment. Its full behavior is impossible to
exercise from a unit test because PAM modules run inside a real PAM stack that
needs root to install. The recipe below runs in a VM or container with
`libpam0g-dev` and `pamtester` installed.
## Build + install
```bash
sudo apt-get install -y libpam0g-dev pamtester
sudo make -C pam install
sudo install -D -m 0644 pam/test/authforge.pamd /etc/pam.d/authforge
```
`make install` drops the `.so` into
`/usr/lib/$(dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_MULTIARCH)/security/`.
## Smoke test 1: pending flag present → denied
```bash
sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/authforge/pending
sudo touch /var/lib/authforge/pending/$USER
pamtester -v authforge "$USER" authenticate
# Expect: "Account setup incomplete..." printed and a non-zero exit code.
```
## Smoke test 2: pending flag cleared → falls through
```bash
sudo rm /var/lib/authforge/pending/$USER
pamtester -v authforge "$USER" authenticate
# Expect: success (the test PAM stack file falls through to pam_unix after
# our PAM_IGNORE; pamtester will prompt for the user's password).
```
## Smoke test 3: path-traversal regression
These usernames must all be rejected with a logged error and `PAM_AUTH_ERR`:
```bash
for u in "../etc" "a/b" "" "." ".." "x..y"; do
pamtester -v authforge "$u" authenticate 2>&1 | head -3
echo "---"
done
```
Logs show up via `journalctl -t authforge_pending` (or wherever your
distribution routes `pam_syslog` — typically `/var/log/auth.log`).
## CI status
CI cannot run `pamtester` against a real PAM stack without root and a VM, so
this is the last manual gate before the Phase 14 PPA build. The CI pipeline
only verifies that `make -C pam` produces a valid ELF.

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# /etc/pam.d/authforge — only used by the manual pamtester smoke run.
# Maps to pam/TESTING.md scenarios.
auth required pam_authforge_pending.so
auth required pam_unix.so
account required pam_unix.so