On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Robert Watson wrote:

> > 1) Is there any way to get Coda to do a clog upon login under Linux? 
> > Perhaps this could be accomplished via PAM?
> 
> Due to the nature of the 'Coda Tokens', the auth server must know the
> secret being used by the client (that is, their password) and be able to
> associate it with the user account.  As I understand it, PAM does not have
> an API call that goes: IHaveAUsernameGiveMeTheirSecret(), and in fact the
> standard UNIX model of having one-way-hashed passwords prohibits this.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but what part of:

	char *username, *password;
	pam_get_user(pamhandle, "Log in you bastard", &username);
	pam_get_item(pamhandle, PAM_AUTHTOK, &password);
	auth_server_authenticate(username, password);

Would not work?
-- Elliot
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