[PHP-DEV] PAM & PHP: update From: Steve Langasek (vorlon <email protected>)
Date: 01/20/00

Hello all,

Since there's been a lot more interest expressed in PAM support under PHP3 in
the past two weeks than in the six months before that :), I've gone ahead and
finished up the conversation support in php3_pam. At present, there's still
no sample conversation function of any worth, but all the hooks are there now
so that a suitably ambitious PHP coder could write one.

Please note that, although this release is significantly closer to the goal of
PAM support under PHP, there are some limitations; most notably, since there's
currently no way to execute PHP code with different permissions than those of
the web server (at least not when PHP is compiled as a module), authentication
methods requiring root access will fail. This means that in general,
authenticating against the local password database is not currently possible.

The latest version is available from
ftp://ftp.netexpress.net/pub/pam/php_pam-0.1.tgz. The name is no longer
specific to PHP3, because I hope that soon the code won't be, either. (Any
volunteers to help port to PHP4? :)

Two sample php3 files are included in the distribution: the first,
class.PAM.php3, is a sample wrapper class demonstrating the use of the PAM
functions, and the second, PAM.php3, is sample code demonstrating the use of
the wrapper class :)

Any questions, comments, bug reports, etc, can be sent to me at
vorlon <email protected>

Cheers,
-Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer 

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