+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #162660 +++ From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050512 Red Hat/1.0.4-1.4.1 Firefox/1.0.4 Description of problem: /usr/lib/squid/ncsa_auth and /usr/lib/squid/pam_auth are packages without setuid root. They are therefore cannot access the shadow password file and cannot authenticate until a manual chown has been executed. Because of this, the package cannot be auto-updated. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): squid-2.5.STABLE6-3.4E.9 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Enable ncsa authentication in squid 2. Try to log in (failed) 3. chown /usr/lib/squid/ncsa_auth to setuid root 4. restart squid to restart the authenticator 5. Try to log in (success) Additional info: The previous report of this issue (56027) has just been closed without a fix. -- Additional comment from andrew on 2005-07-07 07:24 EST -- Typo: %s/chown/chmod/g -- Additional comment from stransky on 2005-07-07 07:38 EST -- You are right, but we want to avoid using setuid. I'll be working on it. -- Additional comment from stransky on 2005-07-15 10:05 EST -- pam_auth and ncsa_auth have setuid in rawhide... -- Additional comment from andrew on 2005-07-15 17:56 EST -- Thanks. Any idea when this might filter through to the production RHEL4 package? -- Additional comment from stransky on 2005-07-18 04:25 EST -- We want to test it in rawhide and if there isn't any problem, we'll update it to RHEL4...
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0045.html