[LCP]Suggestions for authenticating users...

[Jack Lloyd]

OTOH, it can be beneficial to be able to have users without giving them
full access to the machine. For example, there is rarely a need for people
to actually have shell accounts on the CVS server (unless they're the
admin, of course).

Also, that lets people who aren't the sysadmin run the service and
add/remove accounts for that application as they wish.

-Jack

On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 Shalabh_Sharma at Dell.com wrote:

>
> I think you could use OS authentication. Just use standard linux
> authentication functions, and link with pam.
> All the users on that box will get authenticated.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jayson Hay [mailto:ridefast at ozemail.com.au]
> Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 9:36 AM
> To: linuxsa at linuxsa.org.au
> Cc: linuxcprogramming at lists.linux.org.au
> Subject: [LCP]Suggestions for authenticating users...
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I am working on a application and would like some suggestions in regards
> to user authentication. I am using C and the application is being
> developed for linux, but it will have some xplatform/windows clients
> built at a later stage.
>
> CRYPT()ed passwords in MySQL is one possibility that I am looking into.
> But what others are worth a look. Any thoughts or suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jay
>
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