Hi, First, I'd like to apologise for my choice of lists to post to ... the question is more PAM-specific than FreeBSD, but the idea comes from BSD, so I hope someone will have an idea or knows where to turn to (and I don't know where to turn else).
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. After I have generated a random string char * randstring, I have tried setting that string using retval = pam_set_item( pamh, PAM_AUTHTOK, randstring); which returns PAM_SUCCESS. The password / authentication token remains unchanged, however. My second idea, i.e., using pam_sm_chauthtok(...), did not work, either, as I have not understood the arguments to be passed. Should anybody know how to inject a given/known string into PAM to set a user password, know where to look for documentation regarding that issue or have another idea, I would really appreciate it ... and again my apologies for being more than just slightly off topic. Kind regards, -- Christopher J. Ruwe TZ GMT + 1
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