From: Aredridel <aredridel@...>
Date: 2003-07-05T07:00:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Using ruby-pam in a CGI

On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 14:40, Samuel Tesla wrote:
> I suppose some clarification is in order.
> 
> All I'm really trying to figure out is how to write the conversation
> function.  Since it's going to be a CGI, I can't write an interactive
> conversation function (which is kind of what PAM assumes).

You can if you use a persistent authenticator process, that handles
several stages of the request, or do what everyone else does for
non-interactive apps: assume that the first prompt is username, the
second is password, and if there's more, carp and die.

> See, before, I was running my perl script as me instead of root.  It
> would let me authenticate fine but it wouldn't let me change my
> password.  I'm going to write a ruby script and see if it works when I
> run it as root.

Good luck!

> 
> In any event, I'll post my results.
> 
> Thanks,
> Samuel
>