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,