Re: PAM Authentication for webmin users

[Daniel W. <dan...@st...>]

I've been doing a bunch of work with PAM lately and curious why you
wouldn't just use the PAM module?  I know people tend to like using
their own stuff better, but it would simpify integration?

Dan

On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 12:03, Scott MacKay wrote:
> Not how I use it.  I use a special shell 'sdshell'
> which actually does the challenge (so the user needs a
> login, regular password, then securid challenge), but
> I do know the PAM module exists.
> I was thinking it would be cool if there was a
> 'foreign authentication' option allowed, as I can
> easily write a C app which takes in a username and
> PIN+ID to validate the user.  If that was suppoerted,
> I don't think I would need actual UNIX accounts...
> 
> -Scott
> 
> 
> --- Jamie Cameron <jca...@we...> wrote:
> > Scott MacKay wrote:
> > 
> > >Hiyas,
> > >    Is there an easy way to implement a SecurID
> > login
> > >check for webmin users?
> > >
> > Maybe - how does it work if you using PAM and
> > secureID when
> > logging in via telnet or at the console? Currently
> > webmin's PAM
> > authentication mode only supports simple
> > username/password
> > interaction.
> > 
> >  - Jamie
> >