On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 20:07, Fathi Ben Nasr wrote: the USER is NOT connecting to the host. situation is, A user is connecting to the host for purposes of maintaining a database connection. the user won't be that user. the actual user needs to authenticate to the client-side application. the authentication tokens will come from the local machine, BUT the user's login name for the application may be different to the login name for the database. I hope that makes some kind of sense - it's sort of confusing to me now i come to think about it... cheers, jb > Your user should got authenticated when he connected to the host (got a > login/session). So, you could try to use an environement variable like > $USERNAME if you trust your login application, which uses pam, to have > really authenticated the user. > > John Breen a écrit : > > > I'm developing a GTK application and need to authorise the user at > > application startup. I have a GTK window that gets both username and > > password. All the code i've seen with linux-pam has pam deal with > > asking for the password, so how can I provide the password to PAM and > > have it authenticate the user given all the information at once rather > > than ask for anything? > > > > Regards, > > > > John Breen > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Pam-list@redhat.com > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pam-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Pam-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pam-list >
