mod_auth_pam

[me at mattgillen.net (Matthew Gillen)]

What distro are you using?  Fedora Extras has an mod_auth_pam package that
works out of the box for me with NIS.

Looking at the file listing for that package, it seems that there is a file it
adds:
 /etc/pam.d/httpd

Do you have that file?

Matt

Stephen Adler wrote:
> I'm trying to get mod_auth_pam working using NIS and I'm having a bit of
> a problem.
> I've downloaded mod_auth_pam, (mod_auth_pam-2.0-1.1.1.tar.gz) and did
> the required
> make; make install.
> 
> I added the lines
> 
> # loading mod_auth_pam module. SA - Fri Aug 18th, 2006
> LoadModule auth_pam_module modules/mod_auth_pam.so
> LoadModule auth_sys_group_module modules/mod_auth_sys_group.so
> 
> to the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file
> 
> and restarted httpd. This worked all ok. I then created a directory
> /usr/local/www/adler
> and put an index.html file there. I also created a file localusers.conf
> with the following
> text
> #
> # Local qmp users web directories
> #
> 
> Alias /adler /usr/local/www/adler
> <Directory /usr/local/www/adler>
>  AuthType Basic
>  AuthName "secure area"
> #  require group adler
>  require user adler
> </Directory>
> 
> and put that in /etc/httpd/conf.d directory
> 
> Finally I surfed to http://localhost/adler and the username password
> authorization window
> pops up. I put in my user name and password and the authorization fails.
> The following
> text shows up in the /var/log/messages file
> 
> 
> Aug 18 10:48:50 qmt0 ypserv[19665]: refused connect from
> 172.17.1.2:34502 to procedure ypproc_match
> (quantummoleculartech.com,shadow.byname;-1)
> Aug 18 10:48:50 qmt0 httpd(pam_unix)[19463]: authentication failure;
> logname= uid=48 euid=48 tty= ruser= rhost=  user=adler
> 
> 
> So, pam authentication is being enabled, but ypserv is refusing the
> connection. I've removed /var/yp/securenets file and have restarted ypserv.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Cheers. Steve.
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