changing password prompt

David Mitton david at mitton.com
Sat Mar 23 03:36:10 UTC 2013


I think if you dig a bit, you'll find that PAM does not do the prompting.
Typically it's done by the authenticating app.
Which does make it difficult to change the prompts to match the  
credentials you are really asking for.

Dave.


Quoting Rachel Polanskis <grove at zeta.org.au>:

> If you have the source code to something, anything is possible......
>
> --
> rachel polanskis
> <r.polanskis at uws.edu.au>
> <grove at zeta.org.au>
>
> On 23/03/2013, at 5:16, "Smith, Gina C. (MSFC-IS40)[NICS]"   
> <gina.smith at nasa.gov> wrote:
>
>>
>> When sshing into a box that is set up to authenticate via radius   
>> using pam.  Is there a way to change the prompt from ?password? to   
>> ?passcode???
>>
>> Thanks
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