soren@pan.uzulu.ac.za wrote: > On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 05:42:42PM -0800, Petro wrote: > >>Does anyone know how to get Apache's basic auth to authenticate using >>PAM? >> > > Not really...in the interest of somebody knowledgable > correcting me (because I hope this is wrong): > > - if you have a shadow password system, then PAM authentication > doesn't seem to work unless the caller is root. Is this true? > > umm, i use pam for apache just fine. i use it to authenticate to an ldap server. Is this what you are referring to ? AuthType Basic AuthName "Foo" AuthPAM_FallThrough on AuthUserFile /etc/httpd/users require valid-user require group management require group technical require group development This will auth my users to an ldap server, and if that fails, try the local users file. -- Terry Davis Systems Administrator BirdDog Solutions, Inc. (402) 829-6059
