Monit/PAM: supplied wrong password for user '...' accessing monit httpd

[Romain Pelisse]

Hi all,

I'm trying to add auth to the httpd webapp of monit, and thus following the documentation I have the following config:

set httpd port 2812

 allow @jboss

I have a group called jboss and the user belaran is in it:

address@hidden ~]# grep jboss /etc/group

jboss:x:185:

address@hidden ~]# groups belaran

belaran : jboss

However, whenever I try to log in the webapp with this user, I get the following error message:

Monit/PAM: supplied wrong password for user 'belaran' accessing monit httpd

It sounds like something "bad" is happening between Monit and PAM, because I can log into the system without out any issue. It's just monit who fails to authentificate the user...

Any clue on what could be going wrong here ?

Thanks !

FYI:

# yum info monit

Installed Packages

Name        : monit

Arch        : x86_64

Version     : 5.1.1

Release     : 4.el6

Size        : 574 k

Repo        : installed

From repo   : epel

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Romain PELISSE,
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it" -- Terry Pratchett
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