Re: User ACL's not working right

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

Adam Kennedy wrote:
> 
> When you add a new user, there is no longer an option to set the
> password "Same as Unix". I've checked the Authentication config in the
> webmin config module, and neither "Use PAM" or "Never use PAM" work. Did
> I miss something or is this a bug? It only does this for new users.
> Existing users still have their "Same as Unix" option.
> 
> Webmin .970
> Slackware 8.0
> Perl 5.6.1
> No PAM

In webmin 0.970, the old 'same as unix' and 'pam authentication' options
have been replaced with a new 'unix authentication' option which tries
to use PAM and the Authen::PAM perl module to validate users, or if that
is not installed it tries to read the /etc/shadow file directly.

If the 'never use PAM' option isn't working for you, make sure that the
password file that webmin reads exists on your system. If you are not
using shadow passwords, change it to /etc/passwd instead.

The old 'same as unix' option wasn't very nice, because it only kept the
password in sync if it was changed from within webmin - that confused
a lot of people, so I got rid of it and replaced it with this new option
to read the password file directly.

 - Jamie