Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 09:08:47 +0200 (CEST) From: Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirkx@webweaving.org> To: John Morgan Salomon <john@zog.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mod_auth_pam/apache2 Message-ID: <Pine.OSX.4.44.0309240904150.7523-100000@mobile.webweaving.org> In-Reply-To: <2885.217.162.114.208.1064357991.squirrel@yt.88.net>
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On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, John Morgan Salomon wrote: > I'm trying to set up Apache 2 with mod_auth_pam (or, for that matter, > anything that will let me use unix passwords to authenticate to a page.) > mod_auth_external won't do, as I've run into inexplicable freezes > compiling. Which module are you using ? From where ? (www.apache.org/~dirkx/ORA/..) > auth required pam_unix.so service=system-auth debug ... > [Tue Sep 23 18:00:25 2003] [error] [client ***.***.***.***] PAM: user > 'john' - n > ot authenticated: Authentication failure I notice you have a service= there - this may be the service name. I know that the module I did for the ORA conf uses 'httpd' as the pam service name. > What I don't understand is why, if something like sshd can work fine with > PAM, httpd doesn't let me authenticate. Has anyone ever gotten this > working? Yes :-) But depending on how/what module you use you may also need to do a AuthGROUP_Enabled yes as to use getgrnam() et.al. to do unix user checking. Your config likely uses the GroupFile rather than unix groups. Dw.
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