PAM module for client/server application

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Hi.

Among the forest of all available PAM modules in standard linux distros, I was unable to identify the one I should use to fulfill my need:

I'm developing a client/server application that needs authentication. I'd like this authentication to be handled by PAM. For instance, if I want to rely on linux shadow passwords for existing accounts, I'll have my server belong to the "shadow" group and use the "auth-common" module. So far, so good.

But I cannot use SSL or TLS for the client/server protocol, so I have to encrypt the user password. In such situations, I'd usually have the server send a one-time challenge, and the client respond sha1(pass+challenge). Or, if the pass is itself encrypted in the database, let say by some hash() function, the client would answer sha1(hash(pass)+challenge), and the server, knowing the real pass, can check authentication.

My understanding is that I *have* to give the provided password as is to PAM, because I don't have any mean of telling PAM *how* it should be compared to the stored password. Put it in another way, I cannot tell PAM "here is my <challenge>, the user provided <sha1(hash(pass)+challenge)>, please check that".

And so, it means the only solution is to encrypt the password with a reversible encryption function and not with a hash. Am I right?

Thanks,

  Claude


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