From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 21 22: 9:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D75A37B400; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 22:09:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sr-gw.esc.net.au (lnk2.adl.dsl.esc.net.au [210.8.168.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BD0043E6E; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 22:09:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stavros@staff.esc.net.au) Received: from WKSTN00 (unknown [10.0.0.55]) by sr-gw.esc.net.au (Postfix) with SMTP id DDFE55732D; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 14:39:19 +0930 (CST) From: "Stavros Patiniotis" To: , Subject: Replacing flat file unix authentication Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 14:39:15 +0930 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, My apologies if you have received multiple copies of this, I have had a problem with subscription to these lists recently. I am investigating methods in which to replace the unix password file system for authentication and account verification with a database like mySQL. Can anyone offer any recommendations as to a way to do this, or links/information to web pages. PAM doesn't see to cut it! AFAIK (& I have tested) applications such as qpopper still check the unix db for account existence, before proceeding to use PAM and mySQL to verify the password. Thanks in advance... Stavros Patiniotis To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message