See http://pam.sourceforge.net/mod_auth_pam/shadow.html I hope this page help you. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Dunk" <roger@at.com.au> To: <pam-list@redhat.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 11:14 AM Subject: /etc/shadow problem > I have tracked down the problem I was having with Apache and PAM not working > as they should. It appears that unless a particular application is running > as root, pam_pwdb (or pam_unix etc) won't authenticate as they don't have > access to read /etc/shadow. If I chmod o+r /etc/shadow it works as expected. > There is no way I am going to run httpd as root, so what is the solution? > FWIW, until I installed a new copy of the pam libs, everything worked fine. > I also assumed that if I used pam_unix.so and gave /sbin/unix_chkpwd +s file > privelidges, it would be able to properly read /etc/shadow. But again, this > doesn't seem to work. What do I have to do so that /etc/shadow doesn't have > to be world readable? > > Thanks, > Roger --- Toshikazu Yoshikawa
