On Wednesday 19 September 2001 06:26, Oyku Gencay wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've successfully installed and set up Cyrus to authenticate from PAM
> by 1. changing group of imapd to shadow
> 2. changing group for /etc/shadow to shadow (it's root by default)
> and chmod g+r
>
> Whenever I change a password for a user (with passwd) The /etc/shadow
> looses the grop and g+r attributes. Does any one have encountered
> this problem?
This is a known bug in Red Hat's PAM package. Pam_unix was hardcoding
the shadow file permissions. See their Bugzilla bug ID 43706 for
details. The bug was closed with the comment "This should be fixed in
0.75-10 and later. "
Chris
