note 20848 added to function.posix-getpwnam

To check passwords on a Unix-box, look at the mod_auth_external module for Apache, it uses external programs to do the real job. The server won't ever read the encrypted password. One of them, pwauth, can be configured to use PAM or whatever is used on your system. Users that can run this program are configured at compile time. And this program can be called from PHP with exec(...). -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.posix-getpwnam.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+20848 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+20848 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+20848