Linux User Authentication

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    I've been doing a bit of searching around and I see a lot of builtin PHP functions to authenticate using a LDAP server.

    Is there a method to interface with the Linux authentication to test a user/password against a linux username/password using PHP? I'm going to use Linux to store my user and password database instead of an external server.

    Thanks.
     
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  2. jestep

    jestep Prominent Member

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    There's the php LDAP library: http://www.php.net/ldap

    In my experience it's somewhat difficult to work with, but it should work with most LDAP directory structures.
     
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    Two ways to do it:

    1. Query the LDAP server directly using the LDAP library in PHP.
    us3.php.net/manual/en/ref.ldap.php

    2. Use mod_autnnz_ldap in Apache to authenticate and then use the http authentication hooks in PHP to verify.
    httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_authnz_ldap.html
    us3.php.net/features.http-auth
     
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