Re: does PAM lib PHP3 interface exist ?

On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Jan Vicherek wrote: > I'm looking for php3 equivalent of perl's Authen::PAM module. > see: > ( http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/N/NI/NIKIP/Authen-PAM-0.08.tar.gziä~ > ‘‡nñÇgorü ) > or at author's page ( > http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~pelov/pam/ ) > Is there anything like this for PHP ? > Is anybody working on this ? I may as well reply here, too, in case there are others wondering the same thing. :) I've done some preliminary work in this direction--anyone who's interested can find it at ftp://ftp.netexpress.net/pub/pam/php3_pam.tgz. All the basics are there, but I never figured out how to call a PHP function from within the PHP C source (necessary for conversation support). Once that's in place, it should work reasonably well. > The reason I'm asking is that I would like to make a script which allows > users change their system password from WEB page. And PAM is the only > *right* way to do this. Amen :) > Which brings out another question: Is there a way with php to gain root > privileges (so that the passwords can be changed). PHP equivalent of > suidperl ? I remember hearing that the next generation Apache server was going to have the necessary code that would allow doing this securely. I can hardly wait :) -Steve Langasek postmodern programmer