On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 03:12:09PM -0700, Sam Clegg wrote:
> 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?
>
you looking for the pam_pwdfile.so module. it uses the same sort of
password file as htaccess.
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Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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