diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index cda525a..096d4af 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ Maintainer: Proxmox Support Team <support@proxmox.com>
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 10~),
                dh-python,
                libblkid-dev,
+               libelf-dev,
+               libpam0g-dev,
                libssl-dev | libssl1.0-dev,
                libtool,
                lsb-release,
@@ -30,6 +32,18 @@ Description: Solaris name-value library for Linux
  transporting data across process boundaries, transporting between
  kernel and userland, and possibly saving onto disk files.
 
+Package: libpam-zfs
+Section: contrib/admin
+Architecture: linux-any
+Depends: libpam-runtime, ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}
+Description: PAM module for managing encryption keys for ZFS
+ OpenZFS is a storage platform that encompasses the functionality of
+ traditional filesystems and volume managers. It supports data checksums,
+ compression, encryption, snapshots, and more.
+ .
+ This provides a Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) that automatically
+ unlocks encrypted ZFS datasets upon login.
+
 Package: libuutil2linux
 Section: contrib/libs
 Architecture: linux-any
diff --git a/debian/libpam-zfs.install b/debian/libpam-zfs.install
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c33123f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/libpam-zfs.install
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+lib/*/security/pam_zfs_key.so
+usr/share/pam-configs/zfs_key
diff --git a/debian/libpam-zfs.postinst b/debian/libpam-zfs.postinst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2db8674
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/libpam-zfs.postinst
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+pam-auth-update --package
+
+#DEBHELPER#
diff --git a/debian/libpam-zfs.prerm b/debian/libpam-zfs.prerm
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..21e8270
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/libpam-zfs.prerm
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+if [ "$1" = remove ] ; then
+    pam-auth-update --package --remove zfs_key
+fi
+
+#DEBHELPER#
diff --git a/debian/zfsutils-linux.install b/debian/zfsutils-linux.install
index ccb1f16..4f93aa7 100644
--- a/debian/zfsutils-linux.install
+++ b/debian/zfsutils-linux.install
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 etc/default/zfs
 etc/zfs/zfs-functions
 etc/zfs/zpool.d/
-lib/*/security/pam_zfs_key.so
 lib/systemd/system-preset/
 lib/systemd/system/zfs-import-cache.service
 lib/systemd/system/zfs-import-scan.service
@@ -119,4 +118,3 @@ usr/share/man/man8/zpoolconcepts.8
 usr/share/man/man8/zpoolprops.8
 usr/share/man/man8/zstream.8
 usr/share/man/man8/zstreamdump.8
-usr/share/pam-configs/zfs_key