Ihsan Junaidi Ibrahim wrote:
> I've encountered the problem as well and have lived without it since; if
I recalled correctly from a previous reply on this list, pam_unix.so
uses getpwnam () to fetch the password information. It will only return
the password if the calling process has an UID of 0 (root). Since your
apache is running as user www, that should explain why the
authentication failed.
The only workaround is to have your apache runs as root or use a
different authentication back-end.
I forgot to add. Another suitable workaround is to use mod_auth_external
(www/mod_auth_external) and pwauth (security/pwauth) to authenticate
against but not limited to /etc/passwd. On a busy server, this may incur
certain overhead but the important thing is that it does the job. It is
more involving configuration-wise than mod_auth_pam but not by much.
I have it running for WebDAV as well as password protected directories
on an installation.
--
Thank you for your time,
Ihsan Junaidi Ibrahim,
http://ihsan.synthexp.net
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