PAM bug in ckpasswd?

[Martin Tessarek]

Hi,

I think I came across a bug in ckpasswd regarding PAM.
ckpasswd can't check the user auth via PAM if not run by the user in  
question or root...
When nnrpd is run as user news (uid 9 on debian), the user auth fails  
if ckpasswd has no read access to shadow...

su -c "./ckpasswd -u username -p password" news

ckpasswd: pam_unix(nnrpd:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=9  
euid=9 tty= ruser= rhost=  user=username

su -c "./ckpasswd -u username -p password" username
User:username

su -c "./ckpasswd -u username -p password" root
User:username


/etc/pam.d/nnrpd should be ok:
@include common-auth
@include common-account

Greetings,
Martin