Hi,

I need to authenticate user name and password under Linux. These are normal accounts so I guess "libpam" is the weapon of choice. But I can't find any pam binding in the FPC sources.
Is there a better way or has really no one yet used pam with fpc?

thanks,
Mattias

Is there a better way or has really no one yet used pam with fpc?

You can use the /etc/shadows and /etc/passwd files yourself, but that require you to implement the hashing algorithm for the password inside (depends on what the user/admin choose as local login).

At [1] there's a good recipe of how to implement a PAM login app, I believe it could be an interesting point to start a fpc binding.

[1] http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-pam/index.html (search for "10 steps to designing a simple PAM login app")

Processing these files does not allow you to utilize other mechanisms for authentication like fingerprint sensors or security keys which are supported by PAM. So implementing a PAM binding is the way to go.

Regards,
Sven

If no one comes up with a header translation you might simply try whether h2pas can convert the header files of libpam.

Regards,
Sven

In our previous episode, Mattias Gaertner said:

I need to authenticate user name and password under Linux. These are normal accounts so I guess "libpam" is the weapon of choice. But I can't find any pam binding in the FPC sources. Is there a better way or has really no one yet used pam with fpc?

There is an user package that deals with username and pwd via libc, and also works on FreeBSD.