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Article #51Re: Authentication check via /etc/passwd
From: Ken Hayber
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 00:00
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 00:00
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------E9DB4C37D670993DCF26C55B Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit You might want to check the Samba sources. I seem to remember something in there like that. It was quite some time ago though. I could easily be wrong. Jamie Orzechowski wrote: > > Hi There ... I was wondering if you would know where I can find sample code > to verifiing /etc/passwd and returning TRUE or FALSE ... I have a webpage > where you enter the username and password the username is stored in > cgivars[1] and password is cgivars[3] (the cgi is in C language) ... I have > been searching everywhere for code that checks /etc/passwd but cannot find > any =( ... it is for a time checking facilty for an ISP. Mabey there is a > better way? (5000 users) ... if there is a better way could someone could > point me to it .. thanks!! > > -Jamie Orzechowski > mhz@recorder.ca --------------E9DB4C37D670993DCF26C55B Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="khayber.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Ken Hayber Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="khayber.vcf" begin:vcard n:Hayber;Kenneth x-mozilla-html:FALSE adr:;;;;;; version:2.1 email;internet:khayber@gte.net x-mozilla-cpt:;288 fn:Kenneth Hayber end:vcard --------------E9DB4C37D670993DCF26C55B--
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