On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 03:46:49PM +1000, Chris Aitken wrote: > Hi, > > Something ive been thinking about for a while but havent been able > to come up with a definitive answer is this........... > > Is there a system out there which can take over from the normal > (unix based... FreeBSD/Linux type) telnetd method of authenticating > a login off /etc/master.passwd and instead using a MySQL database > for auth.
If FreeBSD has PAM support, one could write a PAM module to authenticate against MySQL. Believe it or not, someone already has: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pam-mysql/ Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Yahoo - Yahoo Finance Desk: (408) 349-7878 Fax: (408) 349-5454 Cell: (408) 685-5936 MySQL 3.23.41-max: up 43 days, processed 943,928,919 queries (253/sec. avg) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
