Re: [squid-users] Question about PAM installation

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 09:53:04 +0200

On Wednesday 17 July 2002 03.21, maillist151@sohu.com wrote:
> Thanks, Henrik
>
> You mentioned,
>
> --------
> * Note that some PAM modules (for example shadow password
> authentication) * requires the program to be installed suid root to
> gain access to the * user password database
> --------
>
> In the above instruction, does "the program" refer to PAM module?
> Or someting else?

"the program" refers to the pam_auth program (or Squid authentication
helper module for PAM if you like) from where the above comment it
taken.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Wed Jul 17 2002 - 02:02:27 MDT

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