/etc/passwd & /etc/shadow

[Joe Lewis]

I had written a pam_create_account, but it's a major security hole - 
anyone can log in, and they get prompted for the password twice, and 
then the account get's created.  The individual had requested the module 
so that techs in the NOC had an easy time of creating them, and set it 
up on the console-only login.  Is this what you are looking for?  If so, 
I'll send you the code and let you hack away.

Joe

Jason Gerfen wrote:

> PAM is running as root, at least I get a UID and EUID of 0 when using 
> the get_(e)uid() function in a module I have been writting.
> 
> The next thing I want to do is to read in the contents of the 
> /etc/passwd & /etc/shadow files during the pam_sm_authenticate() process 
> so I may either add the user locally before mapping the ticket from a 
> successfull kerberos authentication
> 
> So far I am turning up nill on the subject, I am on SuSE 9.0.
> 
> Thanks,
>