[linux-security] Re: How can I Authenticate via MySQL ?

[mfischer josefine ben tuwien ac at]

On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 04:52:19PM -0700, Horms wrote : 
> On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 03:09:41PM +0330, Seyyed Hamid Reza Hashemi Golpayegani wrote:
> > I want to set up my Redhat 6.0 Linux machine to Authenticate username and
> > password and other information for user that received from /etc/passwd &
> > /etc/shadow from MySQL server
> 
> Glibc supports arbitary databases for things like passwd, group and
> shadow, through the nss mechanism.

	Correct me If I'm wrong, but shouldn't this task be done
by PAM ? And AFAIK there exists allready an PAM module which does
basic mysql authentication, try searching for pam_mysql.tgz.

kind regards,
	Markus

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