On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 10:32:37AM +0200, sneaking-wolf@xxxxxx wrote: > I'm searching for a way to use the pam_unix.so module for auth. out of a > program without entering the password manually in the commandline prompt. Is > there a way to call the pam functions with the password as parameter or > something like that? pam_userpass / libpam_userpass are meant to do that. You can get the package at: http://www.openwall.com/pam/ RPMs may be built with "rpm -tb" (some systems might require minor tweaking of the spec file or --nodeps to ignore the dependency on "pam-devel" if the Linux-PAM package isn't split into subpackages). david!solar:~$ rpm -ql pam_userpass /lib/security/pam_userpass.so /usr/doc/pam_userpass-0.9 /usr/doc/pam_userpass-0.9/LICENSE /usr/doc/pam_userpass-0.9/README /usr/lib/libpam_userpass.so.0.9 /usr/lib/libpam_userpass.so.1 david!solar:~$ rpm -ql pam_userpass-devel /usr/include/security/pam_userpass.h /usr/lib/libpam_userpass.a /usr/lib/libpam_userpass.so -- Alexander Peslyak <solar@xxxxxxxxxxxx> GPG key ID: B35D3598 fp: 6429 0D7E F130 C13E C929 6447 73C3 A290 B35D 3598 http://www.openwall.com - bringing security into open computing environments _______________________________________________ Pam-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pam-list