Hi,

I installed package 'django-pam' using 'python setup.py install', the installation was successful. I added the entry in setting.py (fresh django 1.8.x installation) as below. After that I restarted django server and tried to login into http://admin url page. It was taking some time to reload but the LOGIN FAILED. Moreover, the Django superuser was unable to login into admin. I removed below entry from setting.py and the superuser was able to login. Please help me integrating this package.

setting.py:

AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (
'dpam.backends.PAMBackend',
)
PAM_IS_STAFF = True
PAM_IS_SUPERUSER = True

This should be "except User.DoesNotExist", not trying to catch every type of exception which is bad practice.

Based on problems I am having, and comments like this one, it seems that this might be the case, but django doesn't typically run as root and the docs for this app don't mention requiring it to do so. If someone could provide a quick sanity-check about this I would appreciate it.

For details on what I'm seeing, see this issue I filed against python-pam, which seems to be the same pam module that runs under the hood of django-pam. Any help would be greatly appreciated!