authentication service for unix

[Mathias Waack]

Diez B. Roggisch wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> this is not so much a python question, but as my app is developed
> in python, I'll ask anway.
> 
> I'm looking for a method to authenticate users for a corba
> application server, running under linux. I want to be able to
> authenticate users that are valid unix users. Having role/group
> information would be nice later on.
> 
> Currently I use PAM, but thats not so good as I have to run the
> process as root - but for obvious reasons I don't especially like
> that idea.

Using PAM is definitively not the reason why your process must be run
as root. What exactly are you doing?

Mathias