2 * Copyright (C) 1998 Christian Esken <esken@kde.org>
3 * Copyright (C) 2003 Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
5 * This is a modified version of checkpass_shadow.cpp
7 * Modifications made by Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>
8 * Mathias Kettner <kettner@suse.de>
10 * ------------------------------------------------------------
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27 #include "kcheckpass.h"
29 /*******************************************************************
30 * This is the authentication code for Shadow-Passwords
31 *******************************************************************/
42 AuthReturn
Authenticate(const char *method
,
43 const char *login
, char *(*conv
) (ConvRequest
, const char *))
45 char *typed_in_password
;
51 if (strcmp(method
, "classic"))
54 if (!(pw
= getpwnam(login
)))
57 spw
= getspnam(login
);
58 password
= spw
? spw
->sp_pwdp
: pw
->pw_passwd
;
63 if (!(typed_in_password
= conv(ConvGetHidden
, 0)))
66 #if defined( __linux__ ) && defined( HAVE_PW_ENCRYPT )
67 crpt_passwd
= pw_encrypt(typed_in_password
, password
); /* (1) */
69 crpt_passwd
= crypt(typed_in_password
, password
);
72 if (!strcmp(password
, crpt_passwd
)) {
73 dispose(typed_in_password
);
74 return AuthOk
; /* Success */
76 dispose(typed_in_password
);
77 return AuthBad
; /* Password wrong or account locked */
81 (1) Deprecated - long passwords have known weaknesses. Also,
82 pw_encrypt is non-standard (requires libshadow.a) while
83 everything else you need to support shadow passwords is in
84 the standard (ELF) libc.