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From: Jani Jaakkola (jjaakkolcs.Helsinki.FI)
Date: Mon Nov 26 2001 - 11:21:26 CST

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    On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Johnson, Paul wrote:

    > I spent some time looking for something like this. Unfortunately I could'nt
    > find anything.

    At least on RedHat, the default pam-installations creates these two
    suid-binaries:

    -r-sr-xr-x 1 root root 15088 Nov 9 18:30 /sbin/pwdb_chkpwd*
    -r-sr-xr-x 1 root root 16824 Nov 9 18:30 /sbin/unix_chkpwd*

    which are "authentication proxies" used by pam_pwdb and pam_unix.

    Screen locking with user password in default RedHat installation would not
    work without them. I don't know if they are a only a RedHat invention.

    - Jani

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