pam_authenticate only works when logged in as root

Igmar Palsenberg maillist at jdimedia.nl
Fri Jul 8 08:42:00 UTC 2005


> This is easy - you're using shadow passwords so you cannot authenticate
> other users if the pam authentication doesn't run as root.

This isn't the issue : Authentication succeeds if the daemon runs as the 
user it is about to authenticate. When the permissions of /etc/shadow is 
the issue, *all* authentication fails except when running as root.

It's probably some sort or RBAC issue, of PAM is using an external helper.



	Igmar




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