so, is it possible to authenticate against linux system from php-script, by calling some system program or something else and providing username/password? respons should be either true or false. shadow password are in use.
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The easiest & safest way to authenticate against system data is to use some non-interactive network utility, like IMAP, POP, etc. It is possible to generate an encrypted copy of the user's password and directly compare that to what's in the shadow file. But that requires the PHP code to have root privs, which is a decidely bad idea.
If you can't install an IMAP server for this purpose I suppose you could enable saslauthd and configure it to authenticate against the shadow file. Then you'd need a helper application called from PHP (via system) that employs sasl_checkpass() to authenticate the user. See 'man saslauthd' & 'man sasl_checkpass" for details.
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by: chris_calabresePosted on 2004-09-17 at 10:50:52ID: 12086861
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The *nix philosophy is that you can do anything you want. Whether it is easy or not is a different subject.
A google search for 'php unix authentication' lead me to many places, including http://www.kjk.ne.jp/~ihar