mod_auth_pam vs sshd login

[Heiko Hund]

Hi Kenneth,

> I'm trying to get mod_auth_pam working on Fedora Core 2. I can ssh in 
> just fine but I can't "log in" to a protected web path. Everything looks 
> right and I can't see where things are going wrong. Any help would be 
> appreciated.

have you thought about using mod_auth_external? This way apache doesn't 
have to have the rights for reading shadow, but uses a pam-enabled 
setuid-root password checker program that does it. See 
http://www.unixpapa.com/mod_auth_external.html for the module.

Heiko