third party app authentication through Password Server

[Anonymous]

> crossposted: Q&A
> crossposted: Open Directory

Is it possible for third party applications to use the Password Server for authentication?

I’m developing a web application that runs on the Xserve. I’m developing it in Virtuoso (http://www.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/index.htm), which has an integrated LDAP client (http://demo.openlinksw.com:8890/doc/html/ldap.html#ldap).

I won’t take up your time on the actual integration itself, but could you tell me if it’s possible, and if so, point me in the right direction (docs, etc.)?

All Apple could come up with is ‘go to developer.apple.com’. There’s a million documents up there, and the search engine doesn’t work too well, so finding such a needle in the haystack is impossible.

(these are they guys who make the Password Server, aren’t they? They don’t seem to know much about their own product.)

thanks in advance, folks.
Cam.

[Anonymous]

If you wish to do it the hard way look at the Open Directory APIs (look at dsDoDirNodeAuth)
You could also use PAM (which eventually wends it’s way to the PW server)
You should aviod the getpwent() style calls

Leland

[Anonymous]

I wrote a PHP web-app that uses our Open Directory system.

Apparently, everything worked fine. Users that have Open Directory passwords are able to authenticate without any problems.

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