On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Matt Goodall wrote:
I would like to authenticate users from the UNIX system. Unfortunately, my system uses shadow passwords which are not world readable so I can't use the etcUserFolder product.
I understand the security implications of this next question but is there any way to authenticate users but from a shadow password file?
You could use the GenericUserFolder in a number of ways to do this: - Authenticate using an external method, that calls a SUID program to validate the password - Install a Radius server on your Unix host, and authenticate using the ZRadius product The LDAP Adaptor would also work if you can install an LDAP server on your UNIX box. -- ___ // Zen (alias Stuart Bishop) Work: zen@cs.rmit.edu.au // E N Senior Systems Alchemist Play: zen@shangri-la.dropbear.id.au //__ Computer Science, RMIT WWW: http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/~zen