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Package: libapache2-mod-auth-shadow (2.1-2) [universe]

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Original Maintainer (usually from Debian):

  • Jorge Salamero Sanz

It should generally not be necessary for users to contact the original maintainer.

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Apache2 module for authentication using shadow

When performing this task one encounters one fundamental difficulty: the /etc/shadow file is supposed to be read/writable only by root. However, the webserver is supposed to run under a non-root user, such as www-data.

mod_auth_shadow addresses this difficulty by opening a pipe to an SGID shadow program validate, which does the actual validation. When there is a failure validate writes an error message to the system log, and waits three seconds before exiting. The validate program uses getspnam() so supports shadow files and NIS.

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i386 10.7 kB108.0 kB [list of files]