Re: password plugin for linux?

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ask john hale

On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:11:24 -0400 ". /"
<winter () shonkyholdings com> wrote:
> hi all,
>
> naive question - but you know how i can load password plugins in
> window's to
> capture password changes in the clear. is there any way to achieve
> the same
> in linux? atm all i can think of (naively as i said) is to monitor
> the
> shadow file or whatever and then <insert fav technique here> to
> open the
> hash. but i am really trying to achieve a near realtime
> understanding of
> password changes on the system side, so i can sync them out to
> apps or
> systems or whatever.
>
> are there pam's out there that do this? or maybe there are
> rootkits that can
> do this, that i could canabalise the password stuff out of to pam-
> ify it. im
> not looking to write anything nasty here - just think password
> sync-ing,
> without like a managed enterprise approach like NIS or LDAP auth
> or
> whatever.
>
> any thoughts would be appreciated :)
>
>
> david.
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