mod_auth_pam vs sshd login

Kenneth Porter shiva at sewingwitch.com
Wed Oct 6 16:34:50 UTC 2004


--On Wednesday, October 06, 2004 7:49 AM +0200 Heiko Hund 
<heiko at ist.eigentlich.net> wrote:

> 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.

Definitely looks like the better solution for compartmentalizing the 
process. I'll have to see if I can get it in RPM form.





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