[horde] Users

[Eric Jon Rostetter]

Quoting horde at corwyn.net:

>
> OK, (running on a test machine - I'm not that crazy)  in order to  
> narrow down the issue I have issued per yuor suggestion:
> chmod 777 /etc/passwd
> chmod 777 /etc/shadow
> (yeah, terrible for production, I really do know).

Yeah, kind of defeats the purpose of a shadow file :)

> and it still doesn't work.
> I've set
> $conf[auth][driver] to Password file Authentication
> and
> $conf[auth][params][filename] to /etc/shadow (and/or /etc/passwd)
> and
> $conf[auth][params][encryption]  to crypt or crypt md5

"password file" doesn't support shadow files, AFAIK.  But PAM might
work for you in this case, and be easier to do and maintain.

> and I can't log in. When in admin mode on a system already logged  
> in, if I select Administration > Users
> I get
> A fatal error has occurred
> Couldn't open '/etc/passwd'.  (or /etc/shadow)

Could be php in safe mode, or apache is chrooted, or mod_security is
running?  Check your web server logs and system logs for errors, etc.

> It _should_ have permission to open those files (everyone really).
>
> What am I missing?

I'd start looking at the logs, as it could be many things (like the ideas
above for starters).

> Rick


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