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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LSH-PAM-CHECKPW(8) lsh manuals LSH-PAM-CHECKPW(8)NAME
lsh-pam-checkpw - program to check a PAM username/password combination
SYNOPSIS
lsh-pam-checkpw username-to-check
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the lsh-pam-checkpw command. This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the orig-
inal program does not have a manual page. Instead, it has documentation in the GNU Info format; see below.
lsh-pam-checkpw is a program that checks if a username and password combination is valid for login by doing a PAM lookup. It is designed to
be used as a password helper program for lshd (8), (eg. --password-helper=/usr/sbin/lsh-pam-checkpw.
lsh-pam-checkpw takes one required argument, which is the username, and reads the password from stdin, then returns 0 if the password is
valid, or 1 otherwise. Note that the password must be supplied exactly, ie. there must be no newline after the password, so if invoking
from a shell, just type "<your-password><CTRL-D>".
SEE ALSO lsh(1), lshd(8). The programs are documented fully by Lsh, available via the Info system.
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Timshel Knoll <timshel@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
lsh-pam-checkpw Jul 05 2002 LSH-PAM-CHECKPW(8)
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