From bd5f94d2ac85d6fb5d60400345fe41b91f2d303c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "http://schmonz.livejournal.com/" Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:09:44 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] more suid --- doc/plugins/contrib/unixauth.mdwn | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/plugins/contrib/unixauth.mdwn b/doc/plugins/contrib/unixauth.mdwn index f7019b4b8..1917a242d 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/contrib/unixauth.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/contrib/unixauth.mdwn @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ This plugin authenticates users against the Unix user database. It presents a similar UI to [[plugins/passwordauth]], but simpler, as there's no need to be able to register or change one's password. -To authenticate, either [checkpassword](http://cr.yp.to/checkpwd.html) or [pwauth](http://www.unixpapa.com/pwauth/) must be installed and configured. `checkpassword` is strongly preferred. If your web server runs as an unprivileged user -- as it darn well should! -- then `checkpassword` needs to be setuid root. Other checkpassword implementations are available, notably [checkpassword-pam](http://checkpasswd-pam.sourceforge.net/). +To authenticate, either [checkpassword](http://cr.yp.to/checkpwd.html) or [pwauth](http://www.unixpapa.com/pwauth/) must be installed and configured. `checkpassword` is strongly preferred. If your web server runs as an unprivileged user -- as it darn well should! -- then `checkpassword` needs to be setuid root. (Or your ikiwiki CGI wrapper, I guess, but don't do that.) Other checkpassword implementations are available, notably [checkpassword-pam](http://checkpasswd-pam.sourceforge.net/). Config variables that affect the behavior of `unixauth`: -- 2.26.2