Re: Auth with PAM
On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 12:35:27 +0100, Tim Dijkstra <tim@famdijkstra.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to get some app to use PAM to authenticate against the
> /etc/shadow. Shouldn't it be enough for the app to
> be a member of the 'shadow' group for this to work? Or are there any
> other restrictions.
> (Works fine when I make /etc/shadow world-readable, but don't want that
> of course)
It doesn't sound right to add anything to group shadow. Is this
application PAM aware? According to the docs, it needs to have code
specifically for doing PAM authentication and session management.
--
Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
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