Local address from PAM module?

[Jason DiCioccio]

On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 19:12:35 +0100 (BST), Jason Clifford
<jason at ukpost.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Jason DiCioccio wrote:
> 
> >  Thanks for the response.  This module is actually designed for boxes
> > that have quite a few IPs bound to them.  I need to know what address
> > the client is connecting to on the box.  For example, I could have a
> > box with 10.1.1.1 and 10.1.1.2 bound to it.  If you connect to my
> > server, I need to know if you're connecting to 10.1.1.1 or 10.1.1.2,
> > this is part of our authentication.  Is there a way for me to find
> > this out?
> 
> This seems to be a matter for the application rather than PAM - certainly
> that's how I've always implemented such requirements.
> 
> For example one of my apache servers, which does virtual hosting, uses
> PAM to authenticate multiple sites - each from a different PAM
> configuration. All I have to do is to ensure that I have mod_auth_pam
> altered a little so the configuration is user selectable and then list the
> relevant configuration in the access control definitions within apache.
> 
> Similarly your application's calls to PAM should set the service to use
> based upon the data it knows.
> 
> Jason Clifford
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> 

Thanks Jason (wow, there's a lot of Jasons)..  This was unfortunately
the answer I was expecting.  The reason behind the PAM module is so
that we wouldn't have to modify the code for our various services each
time we wanted to upgrade them.  However, I suppose adding a couple of
lines to the code is still a lot better than having to add ~200 lines.

Thanks!
Jason DiCioccio