Re: Can I authenicate user with the accounts in passwd and shadow??
| From: | Paul A. Procacci | Date: | Mon, 04 Mar 2002 23:53:07 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Can I authenicate user with the accounts in passwd and shadow?? | ||
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It's easiest to do this using apache, and not php. It's called mod_auth_pwcheck. You can find information from http://www.chel.com.ru/~anton/projects/mod_auth_pwcheck/. Hope this helps.
Paul
Zenith wrote:
I know that, I can use HTTP, or just normal HTML to prompt for user id and password. And check against the plain text, encrypted text or Database for the user account. But I wonder if I can check the user account against with the /etc/passwd, i.e. use the system accounts. For example, in the system, I am account 'snoopy', and password 'isadog'. In PHP, I prompt for the account, and if the user enters snoopy:isadog, can I verify this from the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow??? Zenith