Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 09:28:06 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew <andrew@ugh.net.au> To: Mark Hennessy <mark@cloud9.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Password Authentication question Message-ID: <20021024092055.L54132-100000@starbug.ugh.net.au> In-Reply-To: <20021023111243.D82804-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net>
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On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Mark Hennessy wrote: > running its threads as is of course NOT root. I have tried getpwnam and > getpwuid in Perl, and the results returned for the password is "*" and not > the crypted password. That's because of the not root bit. You can probably either use an external utility to do you authentication or maintain 2 password databases. As far as external utilities there are things in ports (like pwcheck I think) or you can, as someone already suggested, do it over the network and speak to something like a pop server or poppwd or some other simple service. As far as maintaining 2 databases you can synchronise either when you push your NIS maps or just every X time period via cron. Make sure the new database is accesible to the web server. Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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