lgrochal@??? said:
> Still - this is not the way, I believe. I'd rather use PAM to do the
> authentication.
PAM doesn't help - it has no more privileges to read shadow than any
other process or library. [Actually some implementations have a setuid
shadow password checker, *but* they only work for checking the password
of the user associated with the calling UID).
Nigel.
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