Is there a way to pass the password as a parameter to /bin/login? Or is there any other command I can use to verify if a certain username/password pair is valid?
I am writing a PHP front end and I would love for it to authenticate using the system username/passwords and was thinking of just doing a popen() to a command or shell script with very limited privleges. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
