> > Hi, what my goal is is to be able to authenticate a user by they SSH
> > acount on the system using php. I tried looking on google, but didn't
> > see anything with ssh. What i've tried to do is use the exec() and
> > just do:
> >
> > exec("ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]".escapleshellard("password"));
> >
>
> You can try setting up authorized_keys for this. Then you don't need to
> pass it the password....but you'd still need to provide the ssh passphrase, or have an instance of ssh-agent running. Teren, what are you trying to do exactly? Is ssh actually necessary, or are you really just trying to authenticate users by their unix accounts? --------------------------------------------------------------------- michal migurski- contact info and pgp key: sf/ca http://mike.teczno.com/contact.html -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
