[SunHELP] Password validation

[Edward Chase]

Not 100% part of standard unix...  However I've done something similar 
using Perl and the libnet module (I think).  Perl did come with Solaris 8...

I wrote a password change program, but part of it needs to determine if I 
had the true user by validation of their current password.  This was done 
by having the script open an FTP session to the machine itself.  I you got 
a connection, you must have the proper username / password combination.  My 
program is a web based interface, the users aren't allowed shell 
access.  The machine is a POP mail server.



At 10:21 AM 1/13/2003 -0500, Sheldon T. Hall wrote:
>Is there a simple way to check someone's password from a shell script?  I.e.
>have them enter their system password and be sure that's actually their
>password on a pass/fail basis?  I expect I could use `expect` but I'd prefer
>something that would be a standard part of UNIX.
>
>Thanks.
>
>-Shel
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