Re: Checkpassword 0.90 + Redhat 9.0

Paul Jarc wrote:

>asdf <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>[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
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>What does "ls -lL /bin/checkpassword" say on this machine?
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ls -lL /bin/checkpassword
-r-s--s--t    1 root     root         8.5k Dec 13  2001 /bin/checkpassword

>>I am using this user because I need to make checkpassword work for
>>them,
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>What do you mean?
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I need qmaild to be able to check system passwords using checkpassword, 
so I was testing checkpassword with qmaild.

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

Ok, so first, this is fixed.  Second, this was due to my 
misunderstanding of suid in linux.  I was convinced, somehow, that suid 
didn't work in linux, so I didn't even think to use it.  Yes, I can be 
that stupid at times.  :)

Thanks for the help folks, got this figured out I think.

Sean