<meta http-equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><title></title><meta name="GENERATOR" content="OpenOffice.org 2.0 (Linux)"><meta name="AUTHOR" content="Rupesh"><meta name="CREATED" content="20080410;19212900"><meta name="CHANGED" content="16010101;0"> <style>  </style> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 0.17in;"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helv, sans-serif"><font size="2">I have linux server which is joined to AD Domain.<br><br>One of domain user has (test/dompasswd) same name as local user on machine (test/localpasswd) but has different password.<br><br>My application calls pam_authenticate() API(Linux-PAM-0.99.3.0).<br><br>A)When I call pam_authenticate() for user string <DOMAIN_NAME>\test it succeeds with only domain password (dompasswd ) and fails with localpasswd.(this is expected).<br><br>B)When I call pam_authenticate() for userstring without Domain name "test" it return SUCCESS with both the passwords( local passwd and domain password).<br><br>for B) my appilcation is not able to identify whether user test is authenticated against local user or domain user.</font></font></font></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 0.17in;"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helv, sans-serif"><font size="2">In some specific scenario where I want user to be authenticated only against local database and not against Domain database.<br><br>Can I use any other PAM API instead of pam_authenticate()?<br>or is there any way we can identify after authentication that , the user which is authenticated is local user or domain user?<br><br>Regards<br>Rupesh</font></font></font></div> <p> <hr size=1></hr> Explore your hobbies and interests. <a href="http://in.rd.yahoo.com/tagline_groups_6/*http://in.promos.yahoo.com/groups/">Click here to begin.</a>