On Fri 1999-06-04 (10:54), Don Rose wrote:
> I know this has been posted in the past, but I can't figure it out for the
> life of me. Here's what I'm trying to do:
>
> Take a username and password from user entry (CGI script).
> Check it against the master password database.
>
> I have tried the command-line solution given on the qmail.org homepage,
> but I can't make it work. Here's been my try so far :
>
> I have printed the string "user\000password\000Y123456\000" into a file
> using a perl script, so it turns the \000 into the null character
> checkpassword is looking for (I believe. I then pass the file to
> checkpassword like so :
>
> /bin/checkpassword /bin/id 3<test.file
I've been here before. I tried every possible combination of that test that I
could think of until I discovered that on my FreeBSD and Linux systems id is
in /usr/bin/id rather than /bin/id. Perhaps you're having the same problem.
> Just like it says on the page. This results in nothing happening, hence I
> take it the password is not being accepted even though it is correct. I
> am running on FreeBSD 3.1, and checkpassword works with the qmail install
> I have, so I know my version works. But I need to be able to use it from
> the command line, or at least something other than qmail-popup. It is the
> most secure way of checking a password by a non-root application I can
> think of, and that is allowed by my boss. can someone help me out please?
> Thanks.
- Keith
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