You need to learn C and how to use the Oracle client libraries! Sorry I
can't be more helpful but it's not a trivial job. I've done it for MySQL and
it wasn't too bad but I'd imagine Oracle is going to be more work.
Someone else on the list was recently talking about an LDAP version of the
above. If you use that then set your LDAP server to read from the Oracle
database it should work,
Fergal
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 12:01:33PM -0400, Alejandro Soto Martinez wrote:
> Ok, thanks.
> Then do you have an idea about to implement an smtp/pop3 server that
> authenticate its users against an Oracle database ?
>
> I've been looking, but without results.
>
> Alejandro
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fergal Daly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 9:48 AM
> To: Alejandro Soto Martinez
> Cc: Subscribers of Qpopper
> Subject: Re: Qpopper - authentication question
>
>
> PAM only handles authetication, it makes no effort to handle things like
> UID, GID and home directory info. This means that if you use PAM, you need
> to either keep a password file, alter qpopper to give everyone the same UID
> and GID (and possibly some standard way of working out the homedir just
> given the username) or hack qpopper so that getpwnam is replaced with a
> function that gets its data from a database rather than /etc/passwd,
>
> Fergal
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 09:25:52AM -0400, Alejandro Soto Martinez wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm working in a cellular company that will become an ISP too. Our systems
> > are based in an Oracle DB cliente -server application.
> > Our firsts services as ISP will be dialup access and email accounts. I
> > choose Cisco Secure Access Server (Radius) and Qpopper as pop3 server, on
> > RedHat linux 6.2.
> >
> > The Radius Server (Cisco Secure Access Server) has the posibility to
> > authenticate against SQL databases. But it's not the case of Qpopper
> (isn't
> > it?).
> >
> > So, with qpopper, i decided to use pam authentication against radius
> > (pam_radius_auth module). I followed all the instructions in the
> > installation and configuration, but it doesn't work well. I check the
> radius
> > log, and the message :
> > Tue Apr 17 09:03:02 2001: Auth: Login OK: [soto] (from nas
> > titan.sede.cubacel.com/S2908)
> > appears, so the authentication seems ok. But my email client (Outlook),
> > continues asking for a username and password.
> >
> > Did I miss something in the process?
> >
> > Can anybody help me?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Alejandro
> >
> > p.d. : Sorry for my english
> >
>
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