Re: Using OSX users as users in apache/iTools

Hi Mark,

It is probably not easy to do this. For iTools, you will need to add those users as iTools users in User Management.

This is because the MacOSX passwords are stored as one way encryption. Therefore, we can't decrypt the password and

store it into our database. There is a mod_auth_sys.c (search in google) file written for older generation of Apache to authenticate with System users. It's possible for you to adopt it, and use it to authenticate with System users. However, it might be more trouble than adding those users into iTools Users management. Hope this helps.

regards,

Eric

On Monday, May 19, 2003, at 10:31 AM, Mark A. Marcello wrote:

We have an administrative computer, with absolutely tons of OSX users that can log into the machine. If at all possible, we would like to use these accounts as users in apache/iTools, so we can use

them for authentication purposes on most of our websites.

Is this possible, if not, is there any other program that makes it possible?

--Mark

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