Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 19:34:12 +0100 From: "Christopher J. Ruwe" <cjr@cruwe.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org, des@des.no Subject: Re: setting a random password with PAM API Message-ID: <20110105193412.674f30e5@dijkstra> In-Reply-To: <864o9nhbnv.fsf@ds4.des.no> References: <20101229232030.25b2bd5a@dijkstra> <864o9nhbnv.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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--Sig_/HB4lThJw/5aeGT45UWqpVZP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 11:45:08 +0100 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav <des@des.no> wrote: > "Christopher J. Ruwe" <cjr@cruwe.de> writes: > > I am trying to implement the feature to set a random password like > > in BSD "pw usermod -W" in the Solaris passwd. Regrettably, I have > > not found or perhaps not understood the PAM API documentation on > > how to _inject a given string_ into the change-auth-token function > > pam_chauthtok(...), which always jumps in an interactive pw-changing > > loop. >=20 > There is no reliable way to do that. You don't even know that there > is such a thing as a password. >=20 > DES Thank you very much for your answer, although I suspected so, I still hoped for another content.=20 Kind regards, --=20 Christopher J. Ruwe TZ GMT + 1 --Sig_/HB4lThJw/5aeGT45UWqpVZP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (FreeBSD) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJNJLmpAAoJEJTIKW/o3iwUa78QANTh+//rPoJAwl+WUKntZqgC /CsDsM++NjR0N0Ww1XRJX6x4Tub9ku9D0ZfAOW7ogqqpicYm7CStky6O34hsyRGm ERf93lsodN+/71/QNCZB5nsqxrTxEMlSArfoSap3IQhODFNmju4qvHCMfNFecjPl A2p+okDvpbvucQ7ymD0VuoYStXAFVpS/ozkZfxD3dJe4AKEnjc8htXFMnwtK6jMh ZZUiKcNGZhAp7RnUO9uvuYBLciAzAXEJTIe/+fEARScuPDZFxC92qxuMvTZ9YErH uIxY4FMRF0e3BTDFzte8NGgDEJWKvDCJ1jkDJ+scfGJo+kZZLSln/VCBX9CLFUqk txak5lMW18U2H0MCdG7q1oLkPTReFv/gvdBqEDgQkMFLtDTZtkPqqKnTcNB0tFWf J0TegWvEO+V3rVln+Uw2yTiSfKCtuy/kM2Y2qtM1K8ndW3chh6SpBw5oQvDAs+hd F8p4HkPpNTMFHoNtviBO8PF5El6/Dj6iCPtV4j2CzsDasFr8YfNNEq609deCV0VK fdj0CrsJrCR92Vsk1WPGzBL+MCXBBanJgEysAmPTlS9pSkeHGte9KwrRc0PTn4MX G33kgI7OgWa5N6oxB9IWcwof+MqIxo4eToehQ7kNXwwlUKA9meA8dl/6s0Id97wj aIxknmBh+dng2MpgBPJ2 =L5R9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/HB4lThJw/5aeGT45UWqpVZP--
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