-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora EPEL Update Notification FEDORA-EPEL-2012-5545 2012-04-12 05:22:21 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : mod_auth_shadow Product : Fedora EPEL 6 Version : 2.3 Release : 1.el6 URL : http://mod-auth-shadow.sourceforge.net Summary : An Apache module for authentication using /etc/shadow Description :
When performing this task one encounters one fundamental difficulty: The /etc/shadow file is supposed to be read/writable only by root. However, the web server is supposed to run under a non-root user, such as "nobody".
mod_auth_shadow addresses this difficulty by opening a pipe to an suid root 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.
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updated to latest version, fixed dependency on httpd -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:
[ 1 ] Bug #803066 - Missing Requires: httpd-mmn https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=803066 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use su -c 'yum update mod_auth_shadow' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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