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Re: crypt_r()?
Am Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 03:58:30PM -0800 schrieb Jason Thorpe:
> There really should be a function that takes a user name or ID and a
> cleartext password string, and IPCs to another (trusted system) process
> to do the verification, so that programs that want to verify passwords
> don’t need root privileges. Same for changing passwords.
For the verification half of that, see security/pam-pwuath_suid.
Joerg
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