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Date:      Sun, 24 Jan 1999 10:16:28 +0800
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
To:        Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>
Cc:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, Sheldon Hearn <axl@iafrica.com>, brandon@FreeBSD.ORG, committers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: New crypt code is not sucessful 
Message-ID:  <199901240216.KAA01228@spinner.netplex.com.au>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 24 Jan 1999 03:04:36 %2B0100." <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9901240303100.3641-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> 

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Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Peter Wemm wrote:
> 
> > Speaking of rehashing..  I wonder what the chances of having the password 
> > verification stages of login (or PAM) rehashing the passwords on a 
> > successful login would be?
> 
> If I'm not mistaken, it's only a matter of writing a PAM module that would
> do this.

As I understand it, it has to be done by the module that actually asked for
and got the password.  Adding an extra module in the sequence would (I
believe) mean that it would have to ask for the password again.. I think..
It depends on whether there is any caching, and at what level the cache is
held.

> Andrzej Bialecki

Cheers,
-Peter



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