On Mon, May 01, Bent Bagger wrote: > Hi > > I teach a Linux course at the Engineering College in Copenhagen and > the subject next time is PAM. To demonstrate how to use PAM I have > taken a small program from the O'Reilly book "Linux Security Cookbook" > (p.74). Trying to execute the compiled program results in this error > message: > > Permissions on the password database may be too restrictive Which means your applications runs as normal user, and a normal user is not allowed to access /etc/shadow. > The funny (?) thing is that if I make /etc/shadow world readable with > chmod, the program runs succesfully. This, however, is not a > workaround, I like! I hope one of you can provide me with a better > solution. Give your application the necessary rights to read (and, if it should change the password) and write to that file. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ kukuk@xxxxxxx SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Maxfeldstr. 5 D-90409 Nuernberg -------------------------------------------------------------------- Key fingerprint = 8C6B FD92 EE0F 42ED F91A 6A73 6D1A 7F05 2E59 24BB _______________________________________________ Pam-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pam-list
