I've used this method in the past, and you don't have to deal with having read access to /etc/shadow or special permissions to run other programs that can read the shadow file.

Well, you do run another program with special permissions, and it's called 'ftpd'. Not something I recommend to solve this problem.

The Apache user can do this just fine.

On a properly configured system, there's only one user that can read /etc/shadow, and that's UID 0, aka root. Unless you change the permissions of /etc/shadow, or give the apache user UID 0 (neither of those action is smart), it ain't going to work.

Abigail

In reply to Re: Using Unix passwd/shadow to authenticate in perl by Abigail-II
in thread Using Unix passwd/shadow to authenticate in perl by bennomatic

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