On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Gavin Hamill wrote:
>
> On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Peter Tonoli wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Gavin Hamill wrote:
> >
> > > * * read,auth=user/pass;passwd
>
> > Are you using MD5 passwords or plain DES passwords? (not that this should
> > be a problem).
>
> > Tried using the PAM support? Same result? The PAM support for NNTPCache
> > was developed under Debian 2.1.
>
> I've never really had any truck with PAM.. I generally try to use MySQL
> auth whenever possible... makes it a lot easier to manage :)
>
> What I'm saying is - I have no idea how to use PAM.
I had a file in my development tree, however I'm not sure if it was
included in the world distribution, here it is.. (hopefully for includsion
in the next release!)
/*********************************************************
README.pam
Redhat users will need something similar to:
nntpcache auth required pam_unix_auth.so
nntpcache account required pam_unix_acct.so
in their /etc/pam.conf file.
Debian users require something similar to
auth required pam_unix.so
account required pam_unix.so
password required pam_unix.so
session required pam_unix.so
in their /etc/pam.d/nntpcache file (or whatever you've set it to in the nntpcache config file). Since the Debian PAM authentication modules require the requesting application to be root/in group shadow, you have three choices:
* tell nntpcache to run as root ("user root" in nntpcache.config),
* use the suid pipe authenticator. i.e
auth=user/passwd;pipe
with default pipe authenticator, "unixauth". See "pipeProgram" in
nntpcache.config, for more details.
* not use shadowing, and build your own PAM authentication modules
PCT. 28/5/00
******************************************************/
Cheers,
Peter.
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