[PHP] Re: Can I authenicate user with the accounts in passwd and shadow??

It's easiest to do this using apache, and not php It's called mod_auth_pwcheck You can find information from http://wwwchelcomru/~anton/projects/mod_auth_pwcheck/; Hope this helps Paul Zenith wrote: I know that, I can use HTTP, or just normal HTML to prompt for user id and password And

RE: [PHP] Re: Can I authenicate user with the accounts in passwd and shadow??

I suggest mod_auth_pam if you're running PAM on your Unix box, You could find information about it from http://pam.sourceforge.net/mod_auth_pam/; After HTTP authentification (BASIC), the $PHP_AUTH_USER must be set. I don't know if a PAM module exist for PHP . Regards, Sebastien -Message