"scott.list" wrote:
>
> PERFECT. Thanks a lot.
You're welcome.
> Hopefully not to seem greedy but since I don't know perl or expect, Do you
> know a way I could "wrap this up" in a restricted shell so that say a low
> level support person could log on, and this script would prompt for a
> username/password to check, and loop until "exit". Something they couldn't
> break out of? I do know shell programming. I know how to pass parameters
> to your scripts (I think). Would it be secure for me to just write a script
> and assign it as a shell?
Hmmm. I'm not sure exactly what you want. Do you want to create an
account and use that account for checking usernames & passwords? If so,
I'd say you want to write a script and make that the default shell for
the user account (their last field in /etc/passwd). The script could
then repeatedly prompt for username & password pairs after login.
Perhaps someone else on the list can suggest a better solution than
hobbling a user account?
ps. You'd be sending usernames and passwords as plaintext unless
through an ssh session.
--
David
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