Wes Brown wrote: > Maybe you do not understand what I am trying to do. The server that I am > using will pass the authentication information to me on stdin. I want to > process this in a way so things can be handled by PAM (thus the message to > the pam-list). Novell bindery is working for me via PAM for logging into > the workstation. > > Getting bindery working is less than 25% of my problem. I could hack the > thing together with a bunch of scripts, but the chances of that being > secure is minimal. I want to write a PAM application that will gather the > Basic Authentication information from the web server and it would be > preferable to write that in C. What webserver are you using? There is an Apache module for authentication via PAM - look in the Apache modules registry (follow links from www.apache.org) to find it. There is an LDAP apache module as well, which I am using now. The PAM module did user authentication, but could not do group authentication. Regards, Graham -- ----------------------------------------- graham@vwv.com "There's a moon VWV Interactive over Bourbon Street tonight...
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