getpwnam with md5 encrypted passwds

[sapdb at komadev.de]

Zitat von Q <q_dolan at yahoo.com.au>:

This was a stupid mistake ! 

Thanks 

> Change your crypt line to:
> 
> if (!strcmp( crypt(pass,pwd->pw_passwd), pwd->pw_passwd) ) {
> 
> Seeya...Q
> 
> On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 11:30, sapdb at komadev.de wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > i am trying to validate a given user password against my local passwd-file
> with 
> > this piece of code :
> > 
> >         if (!( pwd = getpwnam ( user ))) {
> >                 log(ERROR,"User %s not known",user);
> >                 stat=NOUSER;
> >         }
> >         if (!strcmp( crypt(pass,pwd->pw_name), pwd->pw_passwd) ) {
> >                 log(DEBUG|MISC,"HURRAY : %s authenticated\n", user);
> >                 stat = AUTHED;
> >                 }
> > 
> > The problem is, that my passwords are encrypted in md5-format, so the
> strcmp 
> > fails always. Now i did not find any usable information on how to work this
> out 
> > on FreeBSD, and how to be independent from the settings in the login-conf ?
> 
> > (that i dont have to check whether its using crypt,md5 or blowfish)
> > 
> > The code should be running on 4.x and 5.x
> > 
> > Any ideas ?
> > 
> > Kind regards 
> > 
> > Kai
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