Apache: using system passwords

Piero pierolists at giochi.org
Tue Aug 2 18:48:15 UTC 2005


Il giorno mar, 02/08/2005 alle 19.24 +0100, Robbo ha scritto:
> On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 08:25 -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> > I'd like my Apache users to be able to sign into a specific
> > part of their site using the same password that they use for
> > email and shell access. I assume this is possible? It
> > certainly would be more convenient and less hackish: as it
> > stands, keeping their htpasswd password synched with their
> > shell password is a pain, when it's not flat-out impossible.
> > 
> > There must be some canonical way to do this, right? Maybe
> > using PAM somehow?
> > 
> 
> If your looking for a single sign on-solution for your whole site read
> up on Kerberos and LDAP.  The module for Apache is then mod_auth_kerb.
> 
> 
I suggest you to use PAM...

Piero





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