Re: System call on Solaris 2.8 to retrieve current user's password

From: Rich Teer (rich.teer_at_rite-group.com)
Date: 05/17/04 

Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 19:01:26 GMT

On Mon, 17 May 2004, Jitendra Sharma wrote:

> I have to implement a "C" program which retrieves current user
> password and compares it with current input user password and do some
> kind of checking on it like it's same as the current stored user
> password etc. This program will be a wrapper on unix passwd program
> and wrapper program will run as setuid-bit-set as root. So please let
> me know if there is someway I can retrieve current stored password of
> a user on Solaris 2.8 through some system call.

man getspnam.

Note that you have to compare encrypted passwords; there's no way
of decrypting an ecrypted password. 

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