Re: PAM use by non root applications
On Wed, 04 Sep 2002 19:33:25 -0500
Hanasaki JiJi <hanasaki@hanaden.com> wrote:
> Does Woody allow non-root id applications to to PAM auth?
>
No, I don't think so. At least I think it will not allow for auth
against files that need root read permissions (or any other you don't
have for that matter). So if you're using shadow passwords you're
authenticating against /etc/shadow for which you need:
-rw-r----- 1 root shadow 741 Jul 24 16:49 /etc/shadow
So only if the authenticating process has egid shadow or euid root
it'll work.
Hope that helps,
Tim
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