Actually, chmod u+s seems to have solved the problem. I still don't know if this is the 'correct' solution, but it sure works. --Pat Pat Suwalski wrote: > Hello, > > I'm one of the people who run a system with about 2000 users. > > We've been using Authen:PAM with Perl for a web script where users can > set some of their preferences. > > Today I upgraded pam-0.72-37.i386.rpm to pam-0.75-18.7 and the script > has since stopped working. > > I've spent all day making some test scripts. Turns out that whereas the > apache user could previously test the validity of users based on > username/password, now only root and the user being tested can do this. > > Does anyone know if this was a recent change, or maybe we were running a > modified version? > > More importantly, does anyone know of a (hopefully simple) solution to > this dilemma? > > Thanks. > -- Pat Suwalski, EngSoc Administrator Faculty of Engineering, Carleton University [pat@engsoc.org] _______________________________________________ Pam-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pam-list
