try pam_pwdfile On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 08:41:54AM +0200, Thorsten Kukuk wrote: > 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 -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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