hi there, Sebastien Sacard schrieb: > 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 did it. I implemented a hybrid PAM/plain text auth backend, relying heavily on the plain text auth class. PAM users always have higher priority over plain text users; to avoid conflicts, you could set a regex pattern only allowing certain user name patterns for fresh users. The system groups are imported, but aren't editable from dokuwiki. PAM users could be put into a dokuwiki group and dokuwiki users could be put into a PAM group, saving the data in the plain text backend. It's no problem to use this auth backend for PAM users only, simply disallow anyone to register ;) You could download the backend class here: http://fsinfo.cs.uni-dortmund.de/~dave/pamplain.class.php.txt (don't forget to rename it to pamplain.class.php ;) My code is not that complete nor well-tested, it still needs userland testing and maybe a bit of bug squashing. At the moment, it's only 2 weeks in use and the site has only been launched into the restricted userland of other students, but it seems to do exactly what I want. No major glitches found yet. I'm waiting for your beta test report and comments on how to do it better ;) ... as of yet, I would call my code "a bit of a hack". In the end, I will upload it into the dokuwiki wiki. The code still needs a bit of documentation for that... Installation: Simply put pamplain.class.php into inc/auth/. Make sure basic.class.php and plain.class.php are also there and set $conf['authtype'] = 'pamplain'; in your conf/local.php. Make sure apache is allowed to do PAM auth! Oh, and by the way, Andi: > However because there is no Debian package of php-pam and it's > not in PEAR/PECL so I never tried it. apt-get install php4-auth-pam It's the "simple" version of PAM, i.e. only username/password validation is implemented. I had to use other means for group management. I don't know if there is a package for PHP5 out yet, but with checkinstall you still could create your own from source ;) cya Dave KLiczbor -- DokuWiki mailing list - more info at http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:mailinglist