I'm missing the original post, but another possibility, if you're running this daemon through inetd, is to use the tcp-env package. It will put the ip address into an environment variable for you. -mike > > Hello all. > > Thank you for your responses. > > > PAM has no way (that I know of) of providing you with the IP address of > > the user, though you can use pam_get_item to get the rhost or the tty. > > > > From the rhost or the tty, you can use whatever tools are available in > > your language to get the IP address. > > Does pam-get-item with PAM-RHOST give me a hostname of a user? > If so, I can call gethostbyname with the hostname. > > Whenever I tried pam-get-item(pamh, PAM-RHOST, (void *)&buffer) , > buffer was unreadable. > ntohl, htonl were not successfull. > My DNS problem? > > Would you tell me how to use this function in detail? > > Thank you in advance. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Pam-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pam-list > -- "Modern electronic-rock music, inaugurated in the early 1960s, is, and always has been, a joint enterprise of British military intelligence and Satanic cults." -- "The Satanic Roots of Rock" http://www.av1611.org/othpubls/roots.html GnuPG key available at http://devel.duluoz.net/pubkey.asc Key ID = 1024D/9A256AE5 1999-11-13 Mike Glover <mpg4@duluoz.net> Key fingerprint = EF6E 8BCB 4810 E98C F0FD 4596 367A 32B7 9A25 6AE5
