Re: Old Authtok when changing passwords

[Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk suse de>]

On Mon, Apr 15, Nicolas Williams wrote:

> That's the purpose of the PAM_OLDAUTHTOK item. The app had better set
> it, if it knows it, else a module must prompt for it. 

The app cannot set it, since the app has no chance to get the password
from the PAM modules.

> Modules have to be
> prepared to deal with PAM_OLDAUTHTOK being set as well as with it being
> unset.

I don't understand what you will tell me with this. This has nothing
to do with the problem.

  Thorsten

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