02-28-2008
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Originally Posted by
Hangman2
However this is the public key which I don't want to use. I want to use the private key so that noone else can log in.
Anyway, you look a little bit confused about how public key cryptography
works...
Public-key cryptography - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
You might also want to use "expect" instead...
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unix2_chkpwd
UNIX2_CHKPWD(8) Linux-PAM Manual UNIX2_CHKPWD(8)
NAME
unix2_chkpwd - helper binary that verifies the password of the current user
SYNOPSIS
/sbin/unix2_chkpwd servicename username
DESCRIPTION
unix2_chkpwd is a helper program for applications that verifies the password of the current user. It is not intended to be run directly
from the command line and logs a security violation if done so.
It is typically installed setuid root or setgid shadow and called by applications, which only wishes to do an user authentification and
nothing more.
OPTIONS
unix2_pwdchk requires the following arguments:
pam_service
The name of the service using unix2_chkpwd. This is required to be one of the services in /etc/pam.d
username
The name of the user whose password you want to verify.
INPUTS
unix2_pwdchk expects the password via stdin.
RETURN CODES
unix2_chkpwd has the following return codes:
1 unix2_chkpwd was inappropriately called from the command line or the password is incorrect.
0 The password is correct.
HISTORY
Written by Olaf Kirch loosely based on unix_chkpwd by Andrew Morgan
SEE ALSO
pam(8)
AUTHOR
Emily Ratliff.
Linux-PAM 0.76 2003-03-21 UNIX2_CHKPWD(8)