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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 13:44:47 -0800 (PST)
From: Philip Hallstrom <philip@adhesivemedia.com>
To: Noor Dawod <noor@comrax.com>
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Subject: Re: SQL authentication with login
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I don't know hardly anything about PAM, but my understanding was that you
didn't need to change any source code, just install the appropriate PAM
module and change pam.conf to use that module for authentication...

if I am right on that I am pretty sure I've seen PAM modules for
postgresql.

-philip

On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Noor Dawod wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've taken a look at /usr/src/usr.bin/login/login.c to try and see if I
> can change it and add to it another type of authentication, in my case,
> SQL authentication.
>
> Put simply, I want login to use a SQL table to check validity of users,
> in addition to PAM, Kerberos and normal /etc/passwd authentication
> types.
>
> My question is: has anyone done this and if it at possible? I know this
> might not be 100% UNIX standard, but let's say in my case, I care less
> about standardization. By the way, it can be an optional component and
> you don't have to use it at all.
>
> Anyone can help?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Noor
>
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