Re: [squid-users] PAM and Squid problem

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 22:41:27 +0100 (CET)

On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Jim Gifford wrote:

> I have been trying to get squid to work with PAM.

Don't use PAM unless there is no other options.

Is there any specific reason to why you want/need to have the proxy users
in the UNIX password file?

> Now for the strange part, the uid is for the squid proxy server and not the
> user jim

You probably have not made the pam helper set-user-id root (see the NOTES
section in the pam_auth manual)

Regards
Henrik
Received on Wed Mar 10 2004 - 14:41:30 MST

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