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Re: winnt/95 authentication
- To: Ian Collins <Ian at kiwiplan dot co dot nz>, "'Gnu win32 mailer'" <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: winnt/95 authentication
- From: Paul Vincent Elia <elia at itatlanta dot com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 19:26:23 -0400
At 05:33 PM 8/20/97 +1200, Ian Collins wrote:
>Is there any way of authenticating a password against windows nt server
>domain security in gnu-win32?
>
>I have written a network service (similiar to telnetd) that I want to
>have authenticated before it will accept a connection.
>
>The PC it will run on will be either winnt or win95, and I want the
>program to authenticate a supplied password against domain security.
>
>Any ideas anyone?
>
>Many Regards,
>Ian Collins
>
I don't know the answer, but I've got two cents to put in on this one. It
would be great if getpwnam() and its related functions worked. This would
be a great path towards authenticating on Win95/WinNT while still keeping
Unix-sh ties.
- Paul Elia
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