#37 PAM authentication instead of mysql

[chris g]

I am trying to get WebCalendar to authenticate via
PAM. This is due to the fact that I have a Novell
network with Authentication Services. It is a shim
for PAM. All authentication requests get redirected
to NDS to avoid multiple different logins and
passwords.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

Chris

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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I like this idea for a similar reason.

WebCalendar is installed on my mailserver. If the login is PAM authenticated, then same login/password as
email and I can tie the 2 systems together much easier.

This would be a major boone to the users!

Dan

[Eric Seigne]

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Yes, you can do it :)

I > AUTHENTICATE

here is two hacks:

1 - email
* pop

use or made a little lib that made a telnet on server, port
110, send user username
pass password
and thats all

* imap
$mbox = imap_open("{localhost:143}INBOX", "username",
"password");
if ($hdr = imap_check($mbox)) {
echo "Num Messages " . $hdr->Nmsgs;
}
else {
echo "failed";
}

2 - ftp
if(fopen ("ftp://user:password@example.com/", "w"))
//ok
else
// bad login or pass

II > INTERACTION WITH WEBCAL

- authenticate via point view in I>
and

$req = "select * from webcal_user where cal_login='$login'
$res = SQL_Exec($conn,$req);
if($res) {
// Ok
}
else {
$reqi = "INSERT INTO webcal_user(cal_login) values($login)
$resi = SQL_Exec($conn,$reqi);
}

Is there ok or am i out of subject ???

Thanks a lot for webcal it's really a very good tool !!

ric

[Nico Stuurman]

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I have a little external program that you can feed your PAM
username/password and that will return true/false. Two of
my projects (sidb and phplabware here on Sourceforge) use it
for authentification. It should be easy to hack Wecalendar
to use the same utility. Be sure to run it under sudo,
since it is obviously a security risk. You can find it
under files on the sidb page (http://sf.net/projects/sidb).