Please Install the Updated Packages.

When performing this task one encounters one fundamental difficulty: The /etc/shadow file is supposed to be read/writeable only by root. However, the webserver is supposed to run under a non-root user, such as &quot nobody&quot . mod_auth_shadow addresses this difficulty by opening a pipe to an suid root program, validate, which does the actual validation. When there is a failure, validate writes an error message to the system log, and waits three seconds before exiting.

mod_auth_shadow on Fedora 12

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041340.html

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Updated on 2015-03-25