Hi Stefan,

thank you, this works as expected. I had some other issues with file
permissions, so this could have come to my mind too :/ Maybe this could be
added to the docs too.

Greetings,
David

2011/1/3 Stefan Scherfke <[email protected]>

> Hi David,
>
> had the same / a similar problem.
>
> Cherokee needs to be able to read /etc/shadow.
>
> Try to add www-data to the shadow-group (e.g. ``sudo adduser www-data
> shadow``) and restart cherokee.
>
> Worked for me. :)
>
> Cheers,
> Stefan
>
>
> Am 2010-08-18 um 10:30 schrieb David Zerrenner:
>
> > Hi, I'm trying to protect a subdirectory of a specific vhost by using pam
> auth and https on Ubuntu 10.04 / cherokee 1.0.8. So i created a directory
> rule for that directory. I assigned the list & send handler, checked "https
> only" on the security tab and activated authentication via pam. No login is
> possible then with valid users.
> >
> > Here're some configuration and log:
> >
> > /var/log/auth.log:
> >
> > Aug 18 10:10:15 gonzo unix_chkpwd[6362]: check pass; user unknown
> > Aug 18 10:10:15 gonzo unix_chkpwd[6362]: password check failed for user
> (xxxx)
> > Aug 18 10:10:15 gonzo cherokee-worker: pam_unix(cherokee:auth):
> authentication failure; logname= uid=33 euid=33 tty= ruser= rhost=
>  user=xxxx
> >
> > cherokee runs as user with uid:gid 33:33
> >
> > ------
> >
> > /etc/pam.d/cherokee (default from cookbook):
> >
> > account    required   pam_unix.so
> > auth       required   pam_unix.so nullok
> > auth       required   pam_env.so
> > session    required   pam_unix.so
> >
> >
> > any help is appreciated :)
> > David Zerrenner
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