Old Authtok when changing passwords

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Hi,

If you use shadow passwords and your password expires, login will ask
you to change the password to a new one. This is no problem, if the
password is stored local in /etc/shadow and the old password is
not necessary.

But if the password and the shadow information is stored in a remote
service, where you need the old password to change it, you have lost.

Is there really no way to get the AUTHTOK used in 
pam_sm_authenticate() from pam_sm_chauthtok()? Do I really have to
ask the user a second time for his password?

  Thorsten
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