> > Hi > > I have a little trouble here, perhaps one of you could help me out... > First I installed SuSE 7.1 an compiled my own apache. > Then I added mod_auth_pam. > > As soon as mod_auth_pam is used for authentication the child-process of the > apache crashes. > > Last time I solved this by replacing 'pam_pwdb.so' with 'pam_unix.so' in > /etc/pam.d/httpd. > This time it doesn't work that way... I don't recall the apache process crashing -- but some investigation revealed that pam_pwdb.so wouldn't do the authentication on a system with shadow passwords unless it was called with root privs. Apache doesn't do this. (as opposed to login/imapd/pop3d/ftpd/etc...). Can anybody back me up on this? -- Soren Aalto <soren@pan.uzulu.ac.za> Internet guy, University of Zululand If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. --Scott Adams
