PAM modules violating PAM architecture?, e.g. mod_auth_pam

[Jason Clifford]

On Wed, 6 Oct 2004, Jed Donnelley wrote:

> The bottom line is the way mod_auth_pam is coded, getpwnam and
> getrgnam must function for the users/groups that I want to authenticate
> from apache with mod_auth_pam.  For those functions to work for those
> users/groups the users/groups must appear as if they are in
> /etc/passwd and /etc/group - e.g. by use of lib_nss and nss_ldap.

This must be something either introduced in the 2.0 version or the way 
you've implemented it.

I have mod_auth_pam for apache 1.3 authenticating users via pam_radius and 
those users don't exist anywhere except on the radius server which is on 
another box.

Jason Clifford
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