Re: Aim, NT auth

Quoting Forrest Rae (blind@hiro.packet-kids.com): > 1) NT auth - > I would like to authenticate users to a web site with existing user list > from a nt domain controller from a unix/apache server, or a /etc/passwd > file. Is this possible? Have any of you seen any existing code for > this? If not would anyone like to help me work on it? > I don't know about NT, but I don't think that you will be able to use /etc/passwd for auth... Because for security reasons passwords are stored in /etc/shadow which is only readable by root. And since the web server doesn't run as roon, or at least it shouldn't, there is no way to read the passwords. Now... You could always write a wrapper program that could run as root, but I wouldn't recomend it, potential security risk. Julie -- [ Julia Anne Case ] [ Ships are safe inside the harbor, ] [Programmer at large] [ but is that what ships are really for. ] [ Admining Linux ] [ To thine own self be true. ] [ Windows/WindowsNT ] [ Fair is where you take your cows to be judged. ]