[plug] Password checking ..

[Bill Kenworthy]

NIS is the best bet here, ensuring that passwords and also a lot of
other stuff if required is in sync (including config files, autofs disk
mappings etc).  Also allows single point configuration of this info.
Downside is it can get incredibly complex if you wish!

BillK

On 12 Jul 2001 11:08:55 +0800, Brian Tombleson wrote:
> Perl/SysAdmin Gurus,
> 
> I need to check that a user's password is the same and correct on two
> seperate systems (RH6.2).  And the tool at hand is Perl.  Other system utils
> may be available, but using a different language isn't desirable since
> everything else is in perl.
> 
> They both run MD5 shadow password files and the users have no login shell
> (/bin/false).
> 
> I've had a look on CPAN and can't find anything directly useful.  Does
> anyone have any suggestions on how this could be achieved scriptually?
> 
> I don't really want to ftp the /etc/shadow file and do a textual compare.
> I'm wondering if trying a POP3 connection to each machine for that
> username/password would work, but then I may not always know the password
> but just want to know if they are the same.
> 
> Any thought/suggestions appreciated.
> 
> - Brian.
> 
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