AIX

Thanks very much for both replies - I was certainly looking into the authenticate function as an alternative, but was having difficulty getting it to return anything useful, or anything at all really.

As it turns out, I forgot to give the program the proper low-level ownership/permissions, so it would always fail.

For those interested, the program needs to be owned by a root-level user/group and have 4755 permissions for it to be able to access the authentication level calls.

Again, thanks a bunch!


Chris

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Another update on this for enquiring minds!

Previously, our crypt() call was in a shared object - and this used to work (still does with the old encryption method, (non-LPA) ). However, from what i've been able to tell, calls to crypt() using LPA currently require that the program have a proper authoritative owner and permissions, meaning if you create a stand-alone executable and give it the same permissions as listed above (and the proper salt), the crypt() function will work without issue.