On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Tyrone Vaughn wrote:
> I did search the archives and the closest solution I can find is to
> abandon checking the shadow file via PAM and run the program "pwcheck"
> as the root user -- something I don't want to do.
>
> If you know the answer, would you please forward it on to
PAM has no special privleges. PAM library call run with the same privilege
level as the calling program. Therefore, not even the user 'cyrus' can
authenticate without permissions set to 444. With that said and your
obvious experience to the contrary, are you talking about cyrus
authenticati
I did search the archives and the closest solution I can find is to
abandon checking the shadow file via PAM and run the program "pwcheck"
as the root user -- something I don't want to do.
If you know the answer, would you please forward it on to me?
Thanks.
Tyrone
Amos Gouaux wrote:
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> On Thu, 09 Aug 2001 08:40:58 -0500,
> Tyrone Vaughn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (tv) writes:
tv> I have done six implementations of Cyrus (2.0.11 - 2.0.16) and in each
tv> one I have the same problem. No user, other than cyrus, can
tv> authenticate unless I make the shadow file 444 verses it o
