Hello all,

I have been attempting to implement an authentication scheme to run on both HPUX and Win_NT machines.

Until I was forced ( against my will ) to bring the NT systems into our engineering arena I was simply using this for authentication:

sub check_passwd {
    my ($uname,$guess) = @_;
    my ($name, $passwd, $uid) = getpwnam($uname);
    $supervisor =  $uname;
    return (crypt($guess, $passwd) eq $passwd);
}
sub check_group {
    my ($uname,$group) = @_;
    while(($name, undef, undef, $members) = getgrent) {
        next if $name ne $group;
        return (grep { $_ eq $uname } split ( / /,$members )) ;
    }
}

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This was working great!!

Now with NT I have been reading and searching and have found some info regarding using User::grent and User::pwentThe code I have so far to use these modules looks something like this...

sub check_passwd_nt {
    my ($uname,$guess) = @_;
    my $pw = getpw($uname);
    print Dumper($pw);
}
sub check_group_nt {
    my ($uname,$group) = @_;
    my $gr = getgr($uname);
    print Dumper($gr);
}
&check_passwd_nt($user_text,$passwd_text);
&check_group_nt($user_text,"supercam");

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I have a Tk popup to ask for name and passwd and everything I read says that I can do this on NT but I am getting an error message and have found no examples except for the pod's for these modules.

The error is:
"Error: The getpwnam function is unimplemented at v:/NT/perl/lib/User/pwent.pm line 172."

Can anyone give me some examples of how they would authenticate a user on both NT and UNIX?

I have no qualms testing for OS and calling the appropriate function. So I guess I'm really simply needing a way to auth on NT.

Thanks in advance for all your help!!

Prost,
Moe

In reply to How do I authenticate users on multiple platforms? by el-moe

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