Re: [Gnue-dev] Appserver/Common Issues

[Neil Tiffin]

At 9:03 PM +0100 11/23/02, Reinhard Mueller wrote:
> Am Sam, 2002-11-23 um 20.27 schrieb Neil Tiffin:
> >  At 4:23 PM +0000 11/23/02, Robert Jenkins wrote:
> >  >Presumably the usernames & passwords will be stored in the main
> >  >database, so the program must have a built-in or configured 'fixed'
> >  >password to be able to verify user logins (and create a fixed
> >  >'superuser' login when initially installed to allow users to be added by
> >  >the system admin?).
> >
> >  This sounds good for phase I, but having user passwords in the
> >  database will be suboptimal in any situation that has more than a few
> >  users. From a maintenance standpoint we should be able to use LDAP or
> >  Active Directory to validate passwords and not store them in the
> >  database.
>
> We were talking about using PAM for authentication, which would mean
> (from my understanding) that we can use at least LDAP as well as simple
> shadowpasswords and more. IMHO there are a _lot_ of thing that make
> sense to generally store in the database, but not the passwords.

Reinhard,

The only quick reference I could find to PAM and Python was at
http://www.pangalactic.org/PyPAM/
and here
http://www.tummy.com/Software/PyPam/index.html
also not updated since python 1.5.2 (1999)

and this seemed real dated.  Do you have a pointer to more recent info?

Linux Pam info is at
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/index.html

I guess I missed something because I can't find recent info about Python/PAM??

Neil
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