Bear with me... I am a PHP programmer for a college -- I've never had to deal with Perl up until this moment. We now need a web-based utility to handle users with expired passwords; since we use a most mangled form of authentication using a bloody mesh of PAM, Kerberos and Active Directory, my best option is to use Perl inside of a PHP page to check their credentials against Kerberos.
In a nutshell, I need to take a username and an expired password and see if that truely was the users' last pasword. Once I'm able to validate the users' expired information, I already have a system in place that will change their password through a web-based form... It's just the authentication with expired credentials that's killing. Please understand, I've never dealt with kerberos either until this point -- I don't know understand how it works or the terms used to identify various aspects. I've heard principal and ticket thrown around, but it's something that's never been explained. If any one isn't busy stuffing a pencil in their eye, I'd appreciate any sample code or direction in this matter; as much as I'd love to take a couple of weeks or so and research the topic and the language, my boss just wants it done now. Thanks, Rob. PS: I don't blame you if, instead of taking the time to answer this post, you do something more productive like devoting the morning to clearing out any extra belly button lint. I know how assinine these types of posts can be. My appologies. ________________________________________________ Kerberos mailing list Kerberos@mit.edu https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/kerberos