Re: Bug #1179: PAM support

On Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 11:26:39AM -0000, penn@usa.net wrote: > From: penn@usa.net > Operating system: Linux > PHP version: 3.0.5 > PHP Bug Type: Feature/Change Request > Bug description: PAM support > > Does PHP has PAM support (I didn't found mention of this in help). > I could parse /etc/shadow manually, but I hope > there is function to just check password. If you can parse /etc/shadow manually using PHP3, you have severe security problems. PHP currently lacks PAM support. I don't think it would be to hard to implement it for Solaris and Linux since they both use about the same API for accessing the necessary information. Interested people find more on: http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/Linux-PAM-html/pam_appl.html -- Regards, Sascha Schumann | Consultant | finger sas@schell.de | for PGP public key -- PHP Development Mailing List http://www.php.net/ To unsubscribe send an empty message to php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For help: php-dev-help@lists.php.net