Re: Checkpassword 0.90 + Redhat 9.0

[email protected] (Paul Jarc) Wed, 02 Jul 2003 13:35:37 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.djb.checkpassword
Organization	What did you have in mind? A short, blunt, human pyramid?
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asdf <[email protected]> wrote:
> [root@xxx qmail-smtpd]# su qmaild
> sh-2.05$ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup blah /bin/checkpassword pwd
> +OK <23007.1057166631@blah>
> user test
> +OK
> pass test
> /home/test

What does "ls -lL /bin/checkpassword" say on this machine?

> I am using this user because I need to make checkpassword work for
> them,

What do you mean?

> Granted, I don't know the internals of this program, but I thought all
> it does was check the username/password against /etc/passwd and
> /etc/shadow,

That's not all it does.  See "Process-state changes" at the end of
<URL:http://cr.yp.to/checkpwd/interface.html>.


paul