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mod_auth_shadow-2.3-1.fc16.src.rpm

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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