Interesting. I will experiment with that. One thing is that most of my users have a shell of '/bin/false' so I don't know if I can "su" in that scenario... I also downloaded a program called 'checkpassword' which looks promising; but maybe more utility than I have use for. http://cr.yp.to/checkpwd/interface.html > One way, that I can think of, is to use "su" (obviously it > you'd have to run it as a user other than root). > su <someuser> -c "echo good pass" > > Is there a way to confirm a users password without actually > > logging in as > > the user? So that if I think that the password is > > 'pass-wd-x' for user > > 'xyz' I can confirm it from the command line. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
