I've hit this bug when developing an application validating users using PAM; even when you make a /etc/pam.d/something file that uses the dummty "allow everything" module, PAM insists on trying to read /etc/shadow for some reason. If and when you run the application as root (or as a user in the "shadow"-group) no such problem exists.
The postgresql-folks seem to have hit this as well: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-advocacy/2003-05/msg00058.php (I did cook up some minimal files using Python-PAM to illustrate this, but unfortunately I got a little over-zealous cleaning up my code last week. No VCS-checkins as well. Æv.) -- pam_unix returns incorrect return value when not run as root https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/67276 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
