Re: [patch] pam_auth has to be installed setuid root

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 10:40:47 +0200

On Sunday 03 August 2003 05.42, Pawel Worach wrote:
> pam_auth has to be setuid root for it to work.

This depends on the backend database. Many of the non-local
authentication services does not have this requirement.

Local authentication services using /etc/shadow does indeed have this
requirement.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Sun Aug 03 2003 - 02:41:19 MDT

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