Hi, On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Leonel Florin Selles <leonel06...@cfg.jovenclub.cu> wrote: > I'm working in a school, in which I have the list of students that visit > the computer lab, the list of users is in a database along with their > alleged passwords. > > I need to create a login for Gonome sesions, that allow me to take the > username and password that the students put and get validated against the > database, and if the credentials of the students are true let him enter > for an existing session on the system, all this need to be performances on > the login windows of gdm or gonome. > > In windows I do not have problems with this, because a rewrite the > MSGINA.dll, but here with gonome I don't know how. > > there is anyone can help me On Linux you would use write your own PAM module to validate the user against your database.
Alternatively, you could sync your database with /etc/shadow or change /etc/nsswitch.conf to use db for shadow (password hash) information instead of /etc/shadow Another option would be export the database via ldap and use ldap for authentication. --Ray _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list