On Sep 17, 6:14pm, Alexander List wrote: > Subject: Using MySQL as user database > Hi! > > I am thinking about using mysql for administering my user database, as it > will probably be quite large (expected round 10000 users). > > I thought about the following ways to do this: > > 1) using normal passwd/shadow files, dumped regularly from mysql > > I encountered the following difficulties with this approach: > > a) I do not want to store clear passwords anywhere, so > b) I would have to encrypt the user passwords "manually" when adding > a user to the database > > 2) patching shadow so that it can use mysql for authentication > > I think there are even more problems with this approach, because > not only shadow uses the passwd/shadow database, but the whole libc > does, and I'm not sure if all my programs that need user information > use the getpwent() function of the C library... > > So my question is: > > Has anyone done something like this before?
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