FarCry
Verified User
Problem:
Well, i was faced with a problem of login users into a members area i'm making for spinnahost. We didn't want users to have to register for the members area, as that would put them off using it, we didn't want to skin it into DA, because then we wouldn't know if they had authenticated or not, and we didn't want to use their client exec details.
So, this left us with using their system username and password. Now, we could have authenticated using the shadow file
but thats a little bit of a security problem, so i thought that i would try out using DirectAdmin to log users in
solution
First of all, i worked out what exactly DA needed to have posted to it, "username" and "password", once that was working i had to find out what http headers would be returned on a good login, and a bad... these were (in part) "302 Found" and "401 Unauthorized", fairly standard
Now i know that, we have to write up (in php) to request that page, then find out what the http header was, then do something depending on if they were successful or not.
This is the code i came up with, its coded so you could add in more control panels if you needed to
Well, i was faced with a problem of login users into a members area i'm making for spinnahost. We didn't want users to have to register for the members area, as that would put them off using it, we didn't want to skin it into DA, because then we wouldn't know if they had authenticated or not, and we didn't want to use their client exec details.
So, this left us with using their system username and password. Now, we could have authenticated using the shadow file
but thats a little bit of a security problem, so i thought that i would try out using DirectAdmin to log users in solution
First of all, i worked out what exactly DA needed to have posted to it, "username" and "password", once that was working i had to find out what http headers would be returned on a good login, and a bad... these were (in part) "302 Found" and "401 Unauthorized", fairly standard
Now i know that, we have to write up (in php) to request that page, then find out what the http header was, then do something depending on if they were successful or not.
This is the code i came up with, its coded so you could add in more control panels if you needed to
PHP:
<?php
session_start();
// nothing was posted, so display the login form
if (empty($_REQUEST['a'])) { ?>
<form action="<?php
// we are posing this data back to this script
echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
?>" method="post" name="frmLogin" id="frmLogin">
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3">
<tr>
<td colspan="2"> <div align="center"><strong>Member Login</strong></div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Domain Name:</td>
<td><input name="domain" type="text" id="domain"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="25%">Username:</td>
<td> <input name="username" type="text" id="username" maxlength="15"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Password:</td>
<td> <input name="password" type="password" id="password" maxlength="15"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"> <div align="center">Logging in may take a few seconds,
please don't refresh the page.<br>
<input name="cp" type="hidden" value="DA">
<input name="a" type="hidden" id="a" value="login">
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Login">
</div></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
<?php } else {
// what IP are we loging users into?? important if we have more than 1 server
$ip = gethostbyname($_REQUEST['domain']);
// for multipule CP's you need to be able to switch them, so here it is
switch ($_REQUEST['cp']) {
// we want DA, of course
case 'DA':
// DA's port is 2222 ([url]http://YOURIP:2222[/url])
$port = 2222;
// build up the content to post to DirectAdmin
$content = "username=".$_REQUEST['username']."&password=".$_REQUEST['password'];
// how long is the content we are posting?
$contentlen = strlen($content);
// the http header we are going to send to direct admin, don't mess with this!
$request = "POST /CMD_LOGIN HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: $ip:$port\r\nContent-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\nContent-Length: $contentlen\r\n\r\n$content\r\n\r\n";
// what header are we getting if successful?
$yes = "302 Found";
// what header is going to be there if unsuccessful?
$no = "401 Unauthorized";
// now we are done, break this statement
break;
}
// open a connection to DA
$fp = fsockopen($ip, $port, $errno, $errstr, 30);
if (!$fp) {
// something went wrong =( we couldn't open up the connection to DA
echo "ERROR: $errstr ($errno)<br>\n";
} else {
$loggedin=false;
// send DA the http header, and the username/password
fputs ($fp, $request);
// now we can get the response, grab the first line, then loop though the others
// this is the correct way to do things, rather than getting the data in the loop =)
$line = fgets ($fp,1024);
while (!feof($fp)) {
// cool, the information we sent logged in our user! set our loggedin variable to true,
// then break out of the loop (because we dont need anything else)
if (strpos($line, $yes) != false) { $loggedin = true; break 1; }
// damn, the info we sent over failed, lets break the loop because we dont need anything more
if (strpos($line, $no) != false) { break 1; }
// get the next line (not that we should need too)
$line = fgets ($fp,1024);
}
// close the connection to DA
fclose ($fp);
// do stuff depending on if they are logged in or not
if ($loggedin) {
// user is logged in, lets setup some session vars for use in our scripts
$_SESSION['LOGGEDIN'] = true;
$_SESSION['USERNAME'] = $_REQUEST['username'];
$_SESSION['PASSWORD'] = $_REQUEST['password'];
} else {
// use did NOT log in successfully (or something went wrong), you might want a message here
// saying that they did not login correctly
$_SESSION['LOGGEDIN'] = false;
echo "login failed";
}
}
}
?>
Last edited:
