From: Victor Reyes <victor.reyes@...>
Date: 2006-11-08T04:09:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Linux authentification check?

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Would LDAP do it?
Just curious!

On 11/7/06, Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/7/06, Roman Hausner <roman.hausner@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Jon Lim wrote:
> > > ruby-pam might be what you're looking for.
> > It seems this needs the system PAM libraries to be installed.
> > I am not really intending to switch the authentification  methods of
> > the linux box or anything, I just want ruby to use the existing
> > authentification method to check for a valid username/password.
> >
> > Maybe I am missing something, but I was expecting something like
> > boolean = validate(username,password)
> > and be done with it :)
> >
>
> Are you saying that PAM isn't installed on your Linux box?
> If it is, you should use it. /etc/passwd is definitely not the last
> word in login authentication. Be careful about your assumptions, or
> else the guy with the smartcard won't be able to use your Ruby
> program.
>
>

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