authenticating my application
 

Hello all,

I would like my app (Slackpack) to have a dialog where user adds the root pwd and runs Slackpack as root.

just like kdesu dialog,

my problem is not the GUI part, but how to do it, i cant communicate with su command for sure. some guy at the qtcentre suggested me to use PAM to authenticate Slackpack,

after a little bit of research on the internet i can see that Slackware is not using PAM for authentication (if i got it correctly, i dont know anythink about security issues and stuff...) but OpenLDAP.

so im like ok, not a prob, ill include the OpenLDAP libraries read abit the docs and do it..

well the problem is I continue research and discover extraterrestrial terms like "OpenLDAP Server" and "OpenLDAP uses PAM..."

oh lord!

questions:
1)wtf is OpenLDAP and PAM :) are there are somekind of authentication software for authenticating users on linux systems?

2)i also run "ldapsearch" on console to see what is this all about and i got a "ldap_sasl_interactive_bind_s: Can't contact LDAP server (-1)" error message, so im like what is an LDAP server and why if its crucial for authenticating how can im logged in on my system with root and such a server is not running?!?

sorry for my english but please help!!!

Slackware does not use PAM and it does not use LDAP for user authentication either.

Eric

Hey bob and thank you for your answer...
ok, the how slackware authenticates users? there must be some lib/method whatever to grant root access to my app :)

anyone? :)