[dokuwiki] Re: using Pluggable Authentication Modules to authenticate users ?
- From: Andreas Gohr <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 20:18:07 +0200
On Wed, 2 Aug 2006 15:08:29 +0100
Sebastien Sacard <sebastien.sacard@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I want to authenticate users using PAM (Pluggable Authentication
> Modules). I've been through the mailing list and the forum, and it
> seems that nobody has ever done that.
>
> I looks the way to go is the following:
> - follow http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:auth:howto
> - use a PHP / PAM library to develop the backend class (like http://
> www.math.ohio-state.edu/~ccunning/pam_auth/ or ftp://
> ftp.netexpress.net/pub/pam/)
correct.
> Does anybody has ever needed this in the past, or do know of any
> existing solution ? What do you think of this approach
I always wanted to do this. In fact this was what I always had in mind
when working on the exchangable backends. However because there is no
Debian package of php-pam and it's not in PEAR/PECL so I never tried
it. But I guess it should be really simple.
Andi
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