ckpasswd and others

[Russ Allbery]

William Pimentel <wpimentel at firstcom.com.co> writes:

> where can i find the command line options for ckpasswd?

There are only three, -s to use the shadow password file, -f to use a
specific file, and -d to use an ndbm database file.

> Does it work with RedHat 6.1??,

It should work fine, but remember that the program has to be able to read
/etc/shadow to check passwords.  On some systems, this may require
chgrp'ing /etc/shadow to a shadow group and making it group writeable, and
then making ckpasswd setgid to that group.

> BTW this is my auth realm in readers.conf:

> auth "mydomain" {
>         hosts: "*"
>         auth: "ckpasswd -s"
>         default: "<FAIL>"
>         default-domain: "mydomain.com"
> }

That looks fine.

> I also see that there are other authenticators (pwcheck and radius) but
> i don't know how to use them

Neither are going to help for what you're trying to do.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>