FreeBSD auth

Igor Robul igorr at speechpro.com
Thu Nov 3 04:56:11 PST 2005


Dan Toganel wrote:

>--- Lowell Gilbert
><freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org> wrote:
>  
>
>>getpwent() *does* give you the encrypted password.
>>It's the second field in the structure passed back.
>>
>>    
>>
>Well, i did:
>............................................
>include<sys/types.h>
>#include<pwd.h>
>
>extern int errno;
>
>int main()
>{
>char *name="dan";
>struct passwd *password;
>int uid;
>
>password=getpwnam(name);
>
>if(!password)
>        {
>        perror("getpwnam failed");
>        exit(1);
>        }
>
>uid=password->pw_uid;
>
>printf("Uid: %d, passwd:
>%s\n",uid,password->pw_passwd);
>
>exit(0);
>}
>.........................................
>bash-2.05b$ ./a.out
>Uid: 1001, passwd: *
>........................................
>I get passwd field from /etc/passwd.which
>is '*' for every user, not the hash 
>from /etc/master.passwd.
>
>Where am i wrong?
>  
>
Maybe you are not root :-) ?

%./a.out
Uid: 1001, passwd: *
%sudo ./a.out
Password:
Uid: 1001, passwd: $1$SO.nZTlP$n.HhobnlE.J45gncea5uD/




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