David Ritchey wrote:

> I can understand System, since it appears to check /etc/passwd/shadow
> and probably needs the perms, but I thought PAM helped to get around
> that limitation.

How can it?  PAM is a library that is linked in to your process,
and therefore runs with the same privileges as the process does.


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