From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Oct 23 8:20:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A68A137B401 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 08:20:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29B5D43E75 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 08:20:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@cloud9.net) Received: from earl-grey.cloud9.net (earl-grey.cloud9.net [168.100.1.1]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76B6732757 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 11:20:43 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 11:20:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Mark Hennessy To: Subject: Password Authentication question Message-ID: <20021023111243.D82804-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If I'm sending to the wrong list, please direct me to the list I should be sending this question to. I'm using FreeBSD version 4.5 and NIS. This application is to run on my NIS Master Server. I am trying to create an application that uses my existing passwd file to authenticate users via a web form. The user that the web server is 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. I have tried Authen::PAM, but I cannot get it to work under FreeBSD 4.5 and for reasons outside of my control, it is not an option for me to upgrade to FreeBSD 4.7. I was wondering if there might be any other alternative to perform the authentication test that does not involve sending password information cleartext across a network. I know it creates a potential security risk, and I would try to build any necessary checks into my application to try to reduce the risk. -- Mark P. Hennessy mark@cloud9.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message