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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Changing the password prompt Post 302406585 by jim mcnamara on Tuesday 23rd of March 2010 10:20:59 AM
Old 03-23-2010
This is a very unusual requirement - why in the world would you need this? I don't get why anyone would interpret
'password:'
as
'enter an incorrect password:'

Corona is being more polite about it. But I don't think, short of rewriting base modules in UNIX, then recompiling, you are going to be able to do that. If you are on Linux or open solaris 10 you have a chance of being able to do this.
 

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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)
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