From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 21 22:27:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B28D37B400; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 22:27:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from digger1.defence.gov.au (digger1.defence.gov.au [203.5.217.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9520843E42; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 22:27:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Alex.Wilkinson@dsto.defence.gov.au) Received: from dsto-ms2.dsto.defence.gov.au (dsto-ms2.dsto.defence.gov.au [131.185.2.150]) by digger1.defence.gov.au (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id g7M5Pje01130; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 14:55:45 +0930 (CST) Received: from muttley.dsto.defence.gov.au (unverified) by dsto-ms2.dsto.defence.gov.au (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.2.10) with ESMTP id ; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 14:56:52 +0930 Received: from salex001.dsto.defence.gov.au (salex001.dsto.defence.gov.au [131.185.2.9]) by muttley.dsto.defence.gov.au (8.9.3/8.9.3/8.9.3.LMD.990513) with ESMTP id OAA15458; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 14:52:58 +0930 (CST) Received: from squirm.dsto.defence.gov.au ([131.185.75.211]) by salex001.dsto.defence.gov.au with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id PMGC61W3; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 14:52:58 +0930 Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 14:42:04 +0930 (CST) From: "Wilkinson,Alex" X-X-Sender: wilkinsa@squirm.dsto.defence.gov.au Reply-To: Alex.Wilkinson@dsto.defence.gov.au To: Stavros Patiniotis Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, Subject: Re: Replacing flat file unix authentication In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20020822144135.X7739-100000@squirm.dsto.defence.gov.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG NIS NIS+ LDAP - aW My apologies if you have received multiple copies of this, I have had a problem with subscription to these lists recently. I am investigating methods in which to replace the unix password file system for authentication and account verification with a database like mySQL. Can anyone offer any recommendations as to a way to do this, or links/information to web pages. PAM doesn't see to cut it! AFAIK (& I have tested) applications such as qpopper still check the unix db for account existence, before proceeding to use PAM and mySQL to verify the password. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message