Re: How To Log Password Change

From: Felix Tilley (ftilley_at_localhost.localdomain)
Date: 08/27/04

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    In article <8e2a9c5b.0408261936.10e7c3a3@posting.google.com>, Thu, 26 Aug
    2004 20:36:22 -0700, "Bob Holding" <etchttpd@yahoo.com> wrote:

    > There have been a few posts about this, but no answer...
    >
    > Fedora Core 1 will send a bad password change to syslog, but not a
    > vanilla password change... Any suggestions on how I can log regular
    > password changes?
    >
    > My first thought was to modify the source to passwd. So, I grabbed the
    > source, did a grep on the text that a bad password change makes, but
    > nothing pops up... So, then I looked at passwd.c, then I saw a bunch of
    > PAM references, but I don't know how to send a successful password
    > change to syslog...
    >
    > Any suggestions?

    Do it deliberately, and monitor the logs. Then figure it out for
    yourself. 

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