Problems running radiusd as non-root user.
My problem is I cannot authenticate using the PAM or System methods without running freeradius as root. When I comment out user and group in radiusd.conf to force it to run as root, it works great. I can understand System, since it appears to check /etc/passwd/shadow and probably needs the perms, but I thought PAM helped to get around that limitation. I've tried running as radiusd and nobody, neither will work. Is this just a limitation of PAM, or freeradius? I'd really rather not run as root! And insight is appreciated, thanks. -- David Ritchey [EMAIL PROTECTED] - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
Re: Problems running radiusd as non-root user.
David Ritchey wrote: I can understand System, since it appears to check /etc/passwd/shadow and probably needs the perms, but I thought PAM helped to get around that limitation. How can it? PAM is a library that is linked in to your process, and therefore runs with the same privileges as the process does. -- Regards, Daryl Tester, Software Wrangler and Bit Herder, IOCANE Pty. Ltd. SCO Rep: Linux must die! We shall prevail! Offsider: Bill, they can see your shirt sleeve. -- http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030609 - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
