[Pam-discuss] is mod_auth_pam really useful?

[seph <se...@co...>]

I've been trying to get mod_auth_pam to work my my system, and have
come against a wall... I can get apache to authenticate as the user
it's running as, but not as any other user. apache is able to read my
/etc/shadow file.

my understanding is that pam doesn't allow non root users to do useful
stuff, so apache's mod_auth_pam is unable to authenticate users other
than itself.

if pam has this problem, and I don't want to run apache as root, is
mod_auth_pam useful, or am I stuck hacking around with
mod_auth_external?

seph