Hello list, I am quite new to pam and I have currently managed to integrate pam to a short hello world application but I don't understand if my application has to run as root or not: I have defined a /etc/pam.d/test which contains the following: auth required pam_unix_auth.so account required pam_unix_acct.so My application will start after pam_authenticate succeds (I am simply using the standard misc_conv from pam_misc.) If I am running my application on behalf of the non-priviledged user 'seb', then I can only pam_authenticate the user 'seb'. To be able to authenticate other users, I have to run the process as root or setuid or sudo. How can an application (such as a webservice) run on behalf of an unpriviledged user and still refuse to run if you can't provide a valid user/password on the linux system ? Many thanks in advance for any help. _______________________________________________ Pam-list mailing list Pam-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pam-list
