Re: [hylafax-users] Problem authenticating through PAM

[Klaus Rörig <kroerig@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Lee,

auth now works with crypt enabled. Don't know what this was.
But what fields can I use with PAM auth?

username, password , adminpassword?, clients users can connect  from?

Klaus

Lee Howard schrieb:
> Klaus Rörig wrote:
> 
>> But it seams that
>> HylaFax cannot deal with encrypted passwords in the mySQL DB. I had to
>> set 'crypt=0' in my PAM module for auth to work.
>>  
>>
> 
> The hfaxd communication communicates passwords in plain text.  If the
> underlying authentication mechanism has the password stored with
> encryption then it will need to do whatever it needs to do to
> authenticate the plain text password against the encrypted password. 
> This is a function of the authentication module itself, and not
> hfaxd/HylaFAX proper.  So you may want to direct this to the pam_mysql
> forums.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Lee.
> 


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