Source: libapache2-mod-auth-shadow
Section: web
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Niccolo Rigacci <niccolo@rigacci.org>
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 4.0.0), fakeroot, dpatch, apache2-dev | apache2-prefork-dev
Standards-Version: 3.6.2

Package: libapache2-mod-auth-shadow
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, apache2-common
Description: An Apache2 module for authentication using /etc/shadow
 When performing this task one encounters one fundamental
 difficulty: The /etc/shadow file is supposed to be
 read/writable only by root.  However, the webserver is
 supposed to run under a non-root user, such as "www-data".
 .
 mod_auth_shadow addresses this difficulty by opening a pipe
 to an SGID shadow 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.
