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Mentino that PAM doesn't work for Unix system authentication because of

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the problems non-root reading /etc/shadow.
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Bruce Momjian 2007-09-14 03:53:54 +00:00
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<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml,v 1.100 2007/07/23 10:16:53 mha Exp $ -->
<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml,v 1.101 2007/09/14 03:53:54 momjian Exp $ -->
<chapter id="client-authentication">
<title>Client Authentication</title>
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and the <ulink url="http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/pam/">
<systemitem class="osname">Solaris</> PAM Page</ulink>.
</para>
<note>
<para>
PAM does work authenticating against Unix system authentication
because the postgres server is started by a non-root user. In order
to enable this functionality, the root user must provide additional
permissions to the postgres user (for reading
<filename>/etc/shadow</>).
</para>
</note>
</sect2>
</sect1>