Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 23:32:01 +0930 From: "Stavros Patiniotis" <sp@esc.net.au> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: authentication Message-ID: <002801c14693$d1591e60$3700000a@private.esc.net.au>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Hello, I am in the process of changing the way that several services on my network authenticate. In particular, I want all services to by authenticated by way of my username and password system that I have implement using a database (mySQL). Basically, this means that POP, SMTP & FTP need to use this new password checking system. I have radius using external perl scripts which queries the database to achieve authentication without issue. Now I realise that PAM could be ideally suited to this. What sort of load can PAM handle, in terms of auth and account type requests? At an educated guess I have about 60 auth request per minute, but probably double this during peak periods. I therfore need a solution that will scale from this, as its only going to get busier. Where can I find information about PAM so I can adapt my perl script to be the method that the pam.conf file uses to authenticate a user. Am I reinveting the wheel? Any other suggestions? (I realise perl probably isn't the answer for production, but I just want to test it!) The software packages that I will use are Postfix, ProFtp, Cistron Radius, and Qpopper. I currently have FreeBSD 4.1, but will be upgrading soon. Thanks. Stavros. [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2600.0" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Hello,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>I am in the process of changing the way that several services on my network authenticate. In particular, I want all services to by authenticated by way of my username and password system that I have implement using a database (mySQL). Basically, this means that POP, SMTP & FTP need to use this new password checking system. I have radius using external perl scripts which queries the database to achieve authentication without issue.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Now I realise that PAM could be ideally suited to this. </FONT><FONT face=Arial>What sort of load can PAM handle, in terms of auth and account type requests? At an educated guess I have about 60 auth request per minute, but probably double this during peak periods. I therfore need a solution that will scale from this, as its only going to get busier.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Where can I find information about PAM so I can adapt my perl script to be the method that the pam.conf file uses to authenticate a user. Am I reinveting the wheel? Any other suggestions?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>(I realise perl probably isn't the answer for production, but I just want to test it!)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>The software packages that I will use are Postfix, ProFtp, Cistron Radius, and Qpopper. I currently have FreeBSD 4.1, but will be upgrading soon.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Thanks.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Stavros.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>
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