Stephen Fischer wrote:
> quoth Mario L. Peralta:
> | Josh Miller wrote:
> | >
> | > Reading the documentation, I'm getting the gist that I can use a user
> | > database besides /etc/passwd, but I'm not quite sure if that's what it's
> | > trying to tell me...I'd like to use my own user/password file...will cyrus
> | > let me do this? if so, how, or where can I find information on how? I can't
> | > figure it out from the documentation...unless it's this kerberos with x.y@z
> | > which also makes no sense to me :)
> | >
> | > --
> | > Josh
> |
> | You can modify SASL's pwcheck daemon to do that. I think this is the
> | simplest
> | way. On the other hand, you can use PAM and develop you own PAM library
> | to check
> | against your /user/password file.
> | Success.
>
> Found this in the archives when looking for just such a pam module. Has
> anyone done it? I found one for linux-pam, but I'm lazy enough to not want to
> duplicate any work if such a thing is out there and compilable for Solaris 8.
>
> Thanks,
> Stephen
There is a pam_gdbm which authenticates against a gdbm hash file. It compiles
under linux and solaris.
ftp://pooh.urbanrage.com/pub/c/pam_gdbm-1.1.tar.gz
Eric
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