[Bug 562146] Re: Integrate nagios users with system ones

[Philipp Kern]

> I was sure that libpam to acces shadow uses some suid helper program.
> So i was wrong about it...

There is a suid helper program in pam_unix, called unix_chkpwd.  But for
obvious reasons it only allows to check the password of the current
user, which is in turn used by programs like gnome-screensaver to verify
the password.  It does not work for brute-forcing or checking any other
user's password.

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Integrate nagios users with system ones
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/562146
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