Re: user auth

On Friday 14 September 2001 17:01, you wrote: if you want to work with the passwords that originally are in the shadow-file your webserver needs to have read-permissions for the shadow-file, which is no good idea. you could parse out the passwords from the shadow-file and write them into an extra password-file only readable for the webserver, which is no good idea neither. Or you could use a patched pam-modul which checks the passwords for you, which is the best solution i can think of. But if you want to do a webmail, you actually don't need to check the password. Your imap/pop-server will do that for you. BTW: There already are lots of webmails in php, just check nocc.sourceforge.net for example and there are many others. > Hello all! I a relatively newbie in PHP, so my question may appear silly: > > Please tell me if anyone has knowledge of > authenticating a user based on his username and password > from Linux system (shadow or anything). > I want to make a php WebMail. Also, i want to make > a ssh virtual web client for the registered user. > > Any help would be appreciated. > Thanks,