I don't think you you quite understand what I suggested. If you already have FTP enabled (and on 7.2 thats default) why not use it for authenication.

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

So we should all turn off FTP on our servers?
Your not running ftpd with some special permissions, your actually attempting to login to ftp localhost.

I'm not saying this is the best method, but it is a perfectly acceptable solution for the Linux world where scripts and other programs are the building blocks for you to use.

ronzo

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

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