I am writing a linux application that requires users to be
authenticated, but these users are completey independant of
the users of my system (i.e. shell/pop access).
Having read all the documentation for PAM it seems that there
is no module that supports user athentication from a file other
than /etc/{passwd|shadow}.
(Actually the berkeley db module does this but I don't know how
easy db files are to manipulate.)
I want athentication from /var/myapp.pwd A bit like apache's
.htpasswd files.
Is this not an appropriate use of PAM? Am I missing something
obvious?
Why can't I do this (I know there must be a good reason)?:
#%PAM-1.0
auth required pam_pwdb.so file=/var/mypasswd
Please help
Sam
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