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  • Committer: Stewart Smith
  • Date: 2011-11-10 05:55:09 UTC
  • Revision ID: stewart@flamingspork.com-20111110055509-bwpjc71yxmxk9oss
add FAQ on using /etc/shadow for auth

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Can I use the PAM plugin to authenticate against /etc/shadow?
 
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Yes, but you will need to run mysqld as root so that the PAM libraries can access /etc/shadow.