Validating user name/password

kuna · 12-02-2004, 08:58 PM

I have a menu that is display from a script file menu.sh

I would like, before displaying the menu, to ask for a user name and password and validate that user name/password with the current users that are already define in the Linux System (RedHat9).

Can someone help me with this issue? I'm not to familiar with Linux.

Someone told me that I can start my menu from the shell and the shell will ask me for a user name/password !?!?!

kuna

hk_linux · 12-02-2004, 10:39 PM

Can u eloborate more. Before loggin into the shell, u are giving the username and password. Why do u want to validate it again?

I guess u dont want to present a shell to the user and start the menu.sh directly. In that case, go to /etc/passwd and edit the last column, which states /bin/bash (or watever shell). Change it to ur script menu.sh (with full path).

Then when u give the user name and password of that user, instead of shell, the menu.sh will be directly executed.

HTH.