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[linux-security] Re: How can I Authenticate via MySQL ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mfischer@josefine.ben.tuwien.ac.at)
Sun Oct 24 04:41:45 1999
From: mfischer@josefine.ben.tuwien.ac.at
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 10:25:53 +0200
To: Horms <horms@vergenet.net>
Cc: Seyyed Hamid Reza Hashemi Golpayegani <hamid@morva.net>,
linux-security@redhat.com
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In-Reply-To: <19991023165219.C29592@vergenet.net>; from horms@vergenet.net on Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 04:52:19PM -0700
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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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