[cobalt-users] Apache PAM Problem

["Roger Dunk" <roger@xxxxxxxxx>]

G'day all,

After recently being hacked, I find that Apache can no longer authenticate
users off the /etc/passwd and shadow files via PAM.

I continually get the error message 'ns pwdb_chkpwd[11735]: password not
found' in /var/log/messages when trying to access a password protected page.
I have checked /etc/pam.d/ahttpd and httpd, and both are original. Programs
such as proftpd have NO problems authenticating using PAM. The only thing I
can think of is that my libpwdb library is somehow broken. However, I'm not
sure whether this would mean proftpd,login(telnet) and other such programs
would be broken too.

Also, I had to reinstall the PAM libraries after the hack. I initally tried
the same version of PAM that came with the RAQ3 (ie I got the RPM off
cobaltnet.com), but after that didn't work I upgraded to the latest version
of PAM, which still doesn't work.

Any ideas?

PS. I've tried using both pam_pwdb.so and pam_unix_auth.so, but both have
the same result.

Thanks,
Roger