[Serusers] Can I use exec commands for authentication?

[Greger V. Teigre]

Ryan,
I haven't seen any answers to your post...

This is most certainly possible, but will not scale for a large number of 
users. SER will fork a child for each exec when exec command is encountered 
(i.e. no ready forked children) and the overhead is pretty large.  You are 
also vulnerable to the script as a failure in the script may cause the SER 
child to hang. If the same error occurs in several SER children, SER will 
not be able to process requests.
g-)

Ryan Pagquil wrote:
> Hi,
>
>          I'm thinking of implementing authentication using exec
> commands. For example, I have a script that checks if a user exists
> in a database. For Register methods i will run this script, if the
> script exit with 1 the use will be rejected and if the script exit 0
> the user is authenticated. Is this possible?
>
> Thanks,