On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 07:21:26PM +0200, Jani Jaakkola wrote: > On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Johnson, Paul wrote: > > I spent some time looking for something like this. Unfortunately I could'nt > > find anything. > At least on RedHat, the default pam-installations creates these two > suid-binaries: > -r-sr-xr-x 1 root root 15088 Nov 9 18:30 /sbin/pwdb_chkpwd* > -r-sr-xr-x 1 root root 16824 Nov 9 18:30 /sbin/unix_chkpwd* > which are "authentication proxies" used by pam_pwdb and pam_unix. > Screen locking with user password in default RedHat installation would not > work without them. I don't know if they are a only a RedHat invention. They are not. They're part of the source for pam_pwdb and pam_unix, respectively. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
