Re: [MRBS-general] NIS Authentication

[John B. <jo...@re...>]

John Beranek wrote:
> Nils Wiese wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> we have a central NIS server at our network and I want to use NIS
>> authentication for MRBS also. Is there a short instruction somewhere,
>> how to implement this? I just found some useless information at the
>> manuel (..."Details?")

> Maybe someone could contribute an alternative NIS/PAM/... authentication
> plugin for Unix users.  Failing that, I could have a look at the
> possible solutions...

If you're OK running a Perl script for authentication (with the
'auth_ext' authentication method for MRBS) and with installing a few
Perl modules (perl -MCPAN -e "install Authen::Simple::NIS") you could
use this simple Perl script:

---------------------------------------------------------------------
#!/usr/bin/perl

use Authen::Simple::NIS;

my $username = shift;
my $password = shift;

my $nis = Authen::Simple::NIS->new;

if ($nis->authenticate($username, $password))
{
  # success
  return 0;
}
else
{
  return 1;
}
----------------------------------------------------------------------

and the following in config.inc.php:

$auth["type"]   = "ext";
$auth["prog"]   = "../nisauth.pl";   # Or wherever you put the script
$auth["params"] = "#USERNAME# #PASSWORD#";


John.

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