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Gutsy, apache2 and auth_pam

Posted by Leon Bogaert on in Linux

In installed libapache2-mod-auth-pam and enabled it:

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#Requires mod_auth_pam
<IfModule mod_auth_pam.c>
    AuthPAM_Enabled on
    AuthType Basic
    AuthName "Subversion Repository"
</IfModule>

#SSLRequireSSL
#Require group subversion

<IfModule mod_auth_basic.c>
    AuthBasicAuthoritative Off  
</IfModule>

But it didn’t work. I got this error messages:

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[error] [client 83.119.XX.XXX] PAM: user 'leon' - not authenticated: Authentication failure
apache2: pam_unix(apache2:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=33 euid=33 tty= ruser= rhost=83.119.XX.XXX user=XXXX

I turned out, apache couldn’t read /etc/shadow. So I added the www-data user to the shadow-group. Rebooted apache2 and voila: it worked.

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