mod_auth_pam

[adler at stephenadler.com (Stephen Adler)]

I'm running red hat enterprise linux 4.


[root at qmt0 init.d]# cat /etc/pam.d/httpd
#%PAM-1.0
auth       required     /lib/security/pam_unix.so
account    required     /lib/security/pam_unix.so

it is there....

Matthew Gillen wrote:
> 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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