> I don't know whether the above will help me. My situation is: > > I have a Apache2 configuration which does htaccess based authentication to > give read/write > access to a particular directory. Even if the user enters correct > userid/passwd combination, the > access to a directory is being denied. I don't now Apache, but the above can be caused by Apache not having access to /etc/shadow. Using your /etc/passwd for Apache authenticating is a big risk, there is no protection for password guessers and that kind of stuff. > I believe this is because my system > uses PAM for user > authentication. Tell apache nog to use PAM. Applications decide if they want to use PAM, not PAM. > To fix this, I suppose I need to compile Apache with > mod_auth_pam ( I am not > sure whether the current mod_auth_pam will work on Apache2) > > I don't want to go through all this because I am just building a demo system > and I want > to keep everything simple. Igmar
