[linux] pwauth and Apache 2.2

[Matt Weatherford]

Man,

Etch has really been chafing my hide lately... was pretty usable for 
months, but now with them approaching RC2, they keep breaking stuff like 
NIS, tbird, rdesktop - Xorg is acting really weird too, lagging down the 
system... If I could stay away from it for a while, I sure would.

Have you filed a bug report with them? Its entirely possible that the 
problem is a bug... unless you see in the errata or the 2.0 -> 2.2 
update notes that the auth subsystem has changed.

I cant wait for etch to release.  But right now, its painful to use.

YMMV

Matt




David Fetrow wrote:
> 
>  Debian 4.0 (etch/testing) went from Apache 2 to Apache 2.2 and
>  broke my old authentication against pam. pwauth and external
>  authentication against pam seemed the way to go.
> 
>  I want to authenticate against PAM (or maybe I should be doing
>  LDAP or something else) for logins and seem to be missing something.
> 
>  The login and shadow password files are on the apache server
>  but copies are also be on other different machines.
> 
>  Has anyone been doing PAM authentication in Apache 2.2 (SSL of course)
>  ...or any user authentication.....but especially with pwauth?
> 
>  I have spent way more time than promised on this and really need to
>  upgrade the server involved to 2.2. Others are stuck until I
>  have user login/password authentication on this Apache server.
> 
>  Thanks.
> 
>  --David Fetrow                    fetrow at apl.washington.edu
>    DCS Manager, Applied Physics Laboratory  (206)-616-0869
>    Cellphone:                    (206)-850-3381