PAM (was Re: VNC to authenticate against /etc/passwd?)

[Illtud Daniel]

Mayuresh A Kathe wrote:

> Right now VNC authenticates a user by checking against its own password
> file.
> 
> Can it be made to ask for a userid & password and reference /etc/passwd for
> authentication?
> If not /etc/passwd some other file, but a single repository would be neat.

What needs is PAM (pluggable authentication module) support, then
VNC (on linux, at least - I'm sure other *nixen also support PAM)
could use any of the PAM authentication modules, like /etc/passwd,
shadow passwords, LDAP, NT domain, securid, RADIUS, Kerberos,
Netware, and lots more.

Should be fairly easy (said he, with no intention of doing it).
Maybe I could cough up some funding if somebody would care to
volunteer. I'd need some assurance that it'd make its way into
the main branch (given the code's good & clean, natch).

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Illtud Daniel                                 illtud.daniel "at" llgc.org.uk
Uwch Ddadansoddwr Systemau                       Senior Systems Analyst
Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru                  National Library of Wales
Yn siarad drosof fy hun, nid LlGC   -  Speaking personally, not for NLW
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