On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 11:45:08 +0100 Dag-Erling Smørgrav <d...@des.no> wrote:
> "Christopher J. Ruwe" <c...@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. > > There is no reliable way to do that. You don't even know that there > is such a thing as a password. > > DES Thank you very much for your answer, although I suspected so, I still hoped for another content. Kind regards, -- Christopher J. Ruwe TZ GMT + 1
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