> Ihsan Junaidi Ibrahim wrote: > > I've encountered the problem as well and have lived without it since; if >> I recalled correctly from a previous reply on this list, pam_unix.so >> uses getpwnam () to fetch the password information. It will only return >> the password if the calling process has an UID of 0 (root). Since your >> apache is running as user www, that should explain why the >> authentication failed. >> >> The only workaround is to have your apache runs as root or use a >> different authentication back-end. >>
> I forgot to add. Another suitable workaround is to use mod_auth_external > (www/mod_auth_external) and pwauth (security/pwauth) to authenticate > against but not limited to /etc/passwd. On a busy server, this may incur > certain overhead but the important thing is that it does the job. It is > more involving configuration-wise than mod_auth_pam but not by much. > I have it running for WebDAV as well as password protected directories > on an installation. --------------------------------------------- I think I'll use mod_auth_external, in afterthought I was a bit narrow minded to focus completly on mod_auth_pam instead of also looking for other solutions. Thx for fixing that :-) regards Hexren _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
