Ubuntu
libapache-mod-auth-pam package

  1. Bug #2913
  2. Comment #1

Comment 1 for bug 2913

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Christian Reis (kiko) wrote :

The reason this fails is because our configuration of PAM makes mod_auth_pam never return DECLINED. The reason is that pam_authenticate() seems to never return PAM_USER_UNKNOWN. IIRC it always returns PAM_AUTH_ERR, and this email seems to confirm it:

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/pam-list/2001-03/0060.html

The reply to that email, at

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/pam-list/2001-03/0059.html

seems to indicate it's a bug in the pam configuration. I'm not so sure it is, but if it is, it's broken in Debian and Ubuntu because I never changed anything in /etc/pam.d/.