On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 12:39:57AM -0600, tdavis@birddog.com wrote: > 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. What does your pam configuration look like? -- Share and Enjoy.