On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 01:34:08PM -0500, Hanasaki JiJi wrote:
| Does Woody allow non-root id applications to to PAM auth?
Yes. No. It depends. Which PAM module are you trying to use? You
can't use pam_unix *if* you use shadow passwords *and* the non-root
user does not have permission to read /etc/shadow. I hope this makes
it clear that the issue isn't PAM at all, but rather what the module
tries to do. pam_unix tries to read /etc/shadow and can only do so if
it has filesystem-level permission. Other pam modules don't read that
file and aren't bound by that restriction.
-D
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