Re: [squid-users] Pam authentication /etc/shadow

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Carlos Hernandez wrote:

> I am new to squid and I am having a little trouble
> authenticating users against /etc/shadow. I am using
> FC3, squid-2.5.STABLE6-3 and pam-0.77-66.2. I am
> trying to use pam_auth (squid's tool) to authenticate
> users against /etc/shadow, but It doesn't work.

Have you read the notes in the pam_auth man page regarding this?

> Jan 31 17:01:43 gaara squid(pam_unix)[5217]:
> authentication failure; logname= uid=23 euid=0 tty=
> ruser= rhost= user=carlos
>
> Does squid is running under its own UID? or it's using
> root's UID?

cache_effective_user/group.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Tue Feb 01 2005 - 15:09:10 MST