On Fri, Apr 11, Anna Langley wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm trying to set up an application (vsftpd) to authenticate from a > file in the same format as /etc/passwd (with crypt format passwords), > but it cannot be /etc/passwd as the 18000 users do not have accounts > on the system. > > Because this is a move from an existing system, I have no choice about > the password format. > > Can I do this with any of the standard pam modules? I don't think that this is possible with standard pam modules, most of them use glibc functions (getpwnam/getpwnam_r) to get the user entry, which always looks in /etc/passwd. My pam_unix2 module has Code to allow the change of passwords in non standard locations (usefull, if you wish to use passwd to modify NIS passwords for your users and the source passwd file is not /etc/passwd or if you wish to use rpasswd/rpasswdd instead of yppasswdd). It should be possible to adjust this changes for everything else, too. But somebody has to implement it. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ kukuk@xxxxxxx SuSE Linux AG Deutschherrnstr. 15-19 D-90429 Nuernberg -------------------------------------------------------------------- Key fingerprint = A368 676B 5E1B 3E46 CFCE 2D97 F8FD 4E23 56C6 FB4B _______________________________________________ Pam-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pam-list
