PAM authentication problem

Question

I am using this module to authenticate using pam: http://code.google.com/p/web2py/source/browse/gluon/contrib/pam.py

I can call authenticate(\'username\',\'password\

Answer 1

I had the same issue root was not getting authenticated. here is the fix

If you use the service 'login' it wont work for root. use,

#authenticate('username','password',service='system-auth')