Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think another possible way would be through the C library. I believe > that the C library has certain authentication functions (I think for > passwd file and NIS). I think that you could modify these functions to > provide whichever method you want.
That's really limited: there are libc functions to say "get me an entry ostensibly out of /etc/passwd" (getpwnam(3), et al.), and /etc/nsswitch.conf can be used to tell libc to get the entry from somewhere else (Hesiod, NIS, etc.) This is kind of okay if your passwd entries contain crypted passwords (in an NIS world, they typically do), if you feel okay about letting crypted passwords fly across the network, and if it's okay to have users repeatedly typing passwords. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
