[dev] PAM auth problem

[Martin Fraser]

After I posted this I got round the problem by using LDAP auth, but I've 
decided to revisit this.

What I've found is that I have a PHP5 extension called php_auth running 
fine. The Auth/pam.php file is looking for an extension called "pam" and 
not finding it loaded. I install the pam development package (I'm using 
Debian stable) and used pecl to install pam, on loading the new pam.so 
in the php.ini file apache won't start, saying the funtion names are 
already registered.

I take it this means the pam and pam_auth extensions cannot both be used 
at the same time. Is there any reason for this as they both seem to 
offer the same services and the pam_auth extension is loadable by me 
through apt-get rather than compiling my own pam.so.

This is an annoyance to me more than a problem but I thought it might 
effect other Debian users so would appreciate any help you could provide.

Thanks.

Martin...


Martin Fraer wrote:
> I just did a CVS update the FRAMEWORK_3 and I can no longer login.
> 
> It is telling me PAM authentication is not available.
> 
> I confirmed that the php5 pam authentication module is loaded in my 
> php.ini and using phpinfo.
> 
> Although it wasn't needed before I also installed the apache2 pam auth 
> module but with no effect. PHP isn't reporting anything useful in the 
> logs and neither is horde. I upped logging levels to debug but horde is 
> just telling me there was an FAILED LOGIN.
> 
> Anyone got any ideas?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Martin...
> 
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