> 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? Of course it is. /etc/shadow is mod 700, which means auth will in no way work. I've solved it by creatinga vhost that runs with root privs, ugly but it works :) Igmar