pam refuses to work when application is daemonized

Diez B. Roggisch d.roggisch at ehotel.de
Thu Apr 22 12:19:03 UTC 2004


Am Mittwoch, 21. April 2004 17:26 schrieb Joe Lewis:
> Are you running the daemon as root?  Sounds kinda like you are not.  No
> user is supposed to be able to authenticate other users unless they are
> root.  (su and other programs that require passwords are setuid root on
> the program permissions).

Yup, that seemed to be the problem. All that stuff is pretty new to me. 
Thanks.

Diez B. Roggisch





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