If I understand your question correctly, you are looking for something that can
be used to test whether or not a given password is valid for a given account,
and you don't want to actually attempt to log in. Forgive me if I am
misinterpreting the situation, but it sounds rather like you are
Thanks, John - but what I'm trying to do is determine whether the user has
entered the right password - and since they don't have shells, I need
something that doesn't attempt an actual login.
As to the written authorization, being root on the system, I'd have to
authorize myself (in writing,
The only way that I know is to calculate the password hash, using the same
algorithm as the login program, and check whether the resulting hash matches
what is in /etc/shadow (on newer systems) or /etc/passwd (on older systems).
--
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Reserve your right to
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 03:57:18PM -0600, Curt Lundgren wrote:
Right, and that seems to be the direction I'll head in. User password
authentication on this particular system is via LDAP and I'm learning enough
about it that I can probably take that route. I was hoping for an already
built
Really, I'd rather not be involved in a flamefest - John's original reply
was not uncalled for. I could have been more complete in my first message -
so blame me if you like.
I'm not sure if PAM is going to work, since the only way these users are
known to the system is via LDAP (I've never
- Michael Chaney mdcha...@michaelchaney.com wrote:
John, may I suggest decaf for a week?
Not beating the dead horse, but it I'm sure this comes from the presentation
Randal Schwartz gave some time back about his encounter at Intel over a
security audit.
Yes, that is the case I was thinking of.
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John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com
Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to
think at all. -- Hypatia of Alexandria
-Original Message-
From: Steven S. Critchfield cri...@basesys.com
Date: Mon, 7 Dec
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Steven S. Critchfield
cri...@basesys.com wrote:
- Michael Chaney mdcha...@michaelchaney.com wrote:
John, may I suggest decaf for a week?
Not beating the dead horse, but it I'm sure this comes from the presentation
Randal Schwartz gave some time back about
MRB-III, room 1220 has been confirmed for our use on the 2nd Tuesday of each
month, 6 pm to 7:55 pm, from January 12, 2009 through July 13, 2009.
This is the space we met in a few years ago. Tables that go the width of
the room with wired connections in table, seats 110.
Paul Boniol
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You
Woo hoo - awesome!!!
(By the way, since I was not a member a few years ago, would you be so kind
as to share the address with us?)
Curt
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Paul Boniol paul.bon...@gmail.com wrote:
MRB-III, room 1220 has been confirmed for our use on the 2nd Tuesday of
each month,
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Curt Lundgren verif...@gmail.com wrote:
Woo hoo - awesome!!!
(By the way, since I was not a member a few years ago, would you be so kind
as to share the address with us?)
Curt
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Paul Boniol paul.bon...@gmail.com wrote:
This response was funnier than mine...
Bill
-Original Message-
From: nlug-talk+ow...@googlegroups.com
[mailto:nlug-talk+ow...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ken Barber
Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 8:25 PM
To: nlug-talk@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [nlug] Confirmation of Room
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 8:24 PM, Ken Barber ken.bar...@gmail.com wrote:
On Dec 7, 2009, at 8:08 PM, Paul Boniol wrote:
MRB-III, room 1220 has been confirmed for our use on the 2nd Tuesday of
each month, 6 pm to 7:55 pm, from January 12, 2009 through July 13, 2009.
Nice to know that it has
According to all I've heard, we are NOT having a regular Tuesday meeting
this month.
We are having a Linux Fest at Watkins this Saturday from 10 to 4, but no
regular meeting this month. (This has been posted to the NLUG site.)
There is some conflicting information on the mailing list,
I am an NLUG officer (the secretary), but I apparently mistook the proposal of
St. Edward's School as a meeting place for an announcement that this month's
meeting would be at St. Edward's. I apologize to everyone for the mixup.
--
John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com
Reserve your right to
Hello Nashville Linux User's Group,
Tomorrow on Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 we are not going to have our normal
meeting at the Biostatistics department (Room D2221) at 6:00pm. This is due
to the meeting space for our InstallFest being unavailable for December
19th. It is available on Saturday,
I've been to it once for a meeting way back in 2007. The best way to
describe its location is to go up the steps just across from the
University School of Nashville, but instead of turning around to go
across the bridge, go straight and then left.
Here's a pic of the stairs I mean
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