Am Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 03:58:30PM -0800 schrieb Jason Thorpe: > There really should be a function that takes a user name or ID and a > cleartext password string, and IPCs to another (trusted system) process > to do the verification, so that programs that want to verify passwords > don’t need root privileges. Same for changing passwords.
For the verification half of that, see security/pam-pwuath_suid. Joerg