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Offline boxyball

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password using pam
« on: November 19, 2014, 05:32:51 PM »
I have a pretty basic server load with sendmail and roundcube and I'm thinking the two password methods available to me are pam or chpasswd.  From what I gather, pam is the more secure but I can't find any instructions.
All that is in the readme file is ...
Requires PECL's PAM exitension to be installed (http://pecl.php.net/package/PAM)
... which is not enough information.  I went to the above site and downloaded - no instructions there either.
Pam already runs on the system.
Any suggestions?

Offline boxyball

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Re: password using pam
« Reply #1 on: November 20, 2014, 01:46:22 PM »
No response.
Apparently there are not enough instructions and too few people know how to set this up.
Check out my how-to post for chpasswd method.
I got that to work.

Offline mckaygerhard

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Re: password using pam
« Reply #2 on: December 11, 2014, 05:10:44 PM »
the ugly chpaswd method use the python script, and some server does not use the required python or does not use python in environment...

so pam must be a valid solution due some hosting provides a pam sincronization.

for use pam, must use the php-auth-pam sources and made setuid the module