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Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 14:24:26 -0800 (PST)
From: Philip Hallstrom <philip@adhesivemedia.com>
To: BSD Freak <bsd-freak@mbox.com.au>
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Subject: Re: .htaccess authentication against /etc/passwd
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http://modules.apache.org/ is your friend.  I know one exists for MySQL
and am pretty sure one exists for /etc/passwd although it's probably not
the best idea...

-philip

On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, BSD Freak wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I want to be able authenticate web applications users against the
> system user database (/etc/passwd) rather than maintaining a seperate
> password database. Is this possible? I've searched all over the web but
> could not find any concrete answers or HOWTO's . Also useful would be
> to authenticate against LDAP or a MySQL database.... anyone know where
> I can get some good detailed info on how to do this?
>
> Thanks in advance.......
>
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