Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 02:21:04PM +0100, Kai Mosebach wrote: > > Looks interesting ... is this method also usable, when i dropped my privs ? > > I think Terry meant pam_authenticate() (not pan), but to answer your > question: no, when you drop your privileges, you do not have access to > at least the system's password database (/etc/spwd.db, generated from > /etc/passwd and /etc/master.passwd by pwd_mkdb(8)). If this will be any > consolation, getpwnam() won't return a password field when you have > dropped root privileges either.
Peter is correct on both counts. If I had not sen his reply first, I would have made the same reply. You cannot crypt something you cannot read. -- Terry _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
