Re: how to let MPD check the password against POP3, IMAP or WWW?
Hi that is not exactly what I wanted to do. My idea was to use a script which accepts the username and password as parameters and then tryes to connect to a web, pop3 or imap server, depending on what is easier. e.g. lynx -auth=username:password http://some.foobar.org/protected and only if the script is able to fetch the protected page, than the user is also accepted for the VPN connection. CU AssetBurned On 12.08.2008, at 06:29, Odhiambo Washington wrote: On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 6:20 PM, assetburned <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a MPD VPN server and another machine which runs WWW, IMAP and POP3 services. I know that I could check if a password is valid e.g. by writing a script which calls a Lynx command. But how can I forward the password from MPD to that script? And I also think that the password has to be unencrypted for the lynx command, so how can I manage that? I run dovecot with MySQL database on one of my servers. Dovecot provides POP3/IMAP. I also have mpd5 on this box and I use credentials from the DB (which contains cleartext passwords) for mpd5 to authenticate, but I do it using a script which extracts the username and cleartext password and writes those to mpd.secret, and also sets the correct permissions on the file. It's a simplistic shell script, called from cron once a day. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: how to let MPD check the password against POP3, IMAP or WWW?
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 6:20 PM, assetburned <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I have a MPD VPN server and another machine which runs WWW, IMAP and POP3 > services. > > I know that I could check if a password is valid e.g. by writing a script > which calls a Lynx command. > > But how can I forward the password from MPD to that script? And I also think > that the password has to be unencrypted for the lynx command, so how can I > manage that? > > CU AssetBurned I run dovecot with MySQL database on one of my servers. Dovecot provides POP3/IMAP. I also have mpd5 on this box and I use credentials from the DB (which contains cleartext passwords) for mpd5 to authenticate, but I do it using a script which extracts the username and cleartext password and writes those to mpd.secret, and also sets the correct permissions on the file. It's a simplistic shell script, called from cron once a day. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Oh My God! They killed init! You Bastards!" --from a /. post ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
how to let MPD check the password against POP3, IMAP or WWW?
Hi I have a MPD VPN server and another machine which runs WWW, IMAP and POP3 services. I know that I could check if a password is valid e.g. by writing a script which calls a Lynx command. But how can I forward the password from MPD to that script? And I also think that the password has to be unencrypted for the lynx command, so how can I manage that? CU AssetBurned ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
