PAM and squid

[Heiko Hund]

Jim Gifford wrote:
> Here is my error message
> Mar 10 11:57:23 server squid(pam_unix)[23002]: authentication failure;
> logname= uid=117 euid=117 tty= ruser= rhost=  user=jim
> Now for the strange part, the uid is for the squid proxy server and not the
> user jim

Did you set the 'pam_auth' authenticators owner-suid bit and is it owned 
by root? If you use shadow passwords (very likely you do), you have to 
have the permission to read /etc/shadow. In many cases only root and 
maybe a group 'shadow' or likewise is allowed to do that. Squid has to 
become one of them to validate the password you supply for user 'jim'.

HTH
Heiko