Applications and PAM_OLDAUTHTOK

[Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk suse de>]

Hi,

I have an application, which uses PAM for user authentication.
But now I need later the current clear password of the User to
change some user informations on a remote side over NIS, NIS+ or
LDAP.

It is stupid to ask the user a second time for the password.

pam_get_item (pamh, PAM_OLDAUTHTOK, ...); does not work from
the application, is there another way to access the data?
I could write my own conversion function and parse the strings,
but I don't think that this is a really good idea.

  Thorsten

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