mod_auth_pam vs sshd login

[Jason Clifford]

On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Kenneth Porter wrote:

> The problem appears to be that I'm using shadow passwords and Apache, 
> running as user apache, can't access the shadow file. What's the canonical 
> way to deal with this?

The usual way is to add the user the apache process runs as to a special 
group which you give permission to read the file.

Do remember to ensure that only those sites that *must* have access to the 
file are run in the apache process running as that user.

Jason Clifford
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