[Dovecot] pam needs root with 2.0rc2 on Solaris?
Hello all,
I have a question using PAM to authenticate on Solaris 10, with 2.0rc2. I need to set the user for auth-worker to root, else it will return "Unknown user". Is that expected? I'm using PAM, so why does it need access to /etc/shadow?
TIA!
Laurent
service auth-worker { # Auth worker process is run as root by default, so that it can access # /etc/shadow. If this isn't necessary, the user should be changed to # $default_internal_user. user = root #user = dovecot }
Jul 18 09:59:31 tiphaine dovecot: [ID 583609 mail.info] auth: pam(user,127.0.0.1): unknown user
On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 10:22 +0200, Laurent Blume wrote:
Hello all,
I have a question using PAM to authenticate on Solaris 10, with 2.0rc2. I need to set the user for auth-worker to root, else it will return "Unknown user". Is that expected? I'm using PAM, so why does it need access to /etc/shadow?
Well, if PAM is authenticating from /etc/shadow, then it needs read access to it. PAM runs in the same process as auth worker. If you're not authenticating from /etc/shadow (where then?), then something else is wrong.
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Laurent Blume
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Timo Sirainen