Hi, Jesse, why did you patch mod_auth-pam and not use a PAM-Module that does the same ? IMHO the central idea of pam is to move all the authentication and (in your case) authorization stuff out of the application code, regardless of doing so in the central application or a loadable module. If you like, i can send you the code for a pam module that does exactly wha you want (and even more), called pam_ttygroup. Regards, Andreas -- Dr.-Ing. Andreas Schindler Alpha Zero One Computersysteme GmbH Frankfurter Str. 141 63303 Dreieich Telefon 06103-57187-21 Telefax 06103-373245 schindler@xxxxxx www.az1.de _______________________________________________ Pam-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pam-list