[Pam-developers] Forwarding the password to the next PAM module?

Tomas Mraz tmraz at redhat.com
Wed Jun 27 13:00:07 UTC 2012


On Wed, 2012-06-27 at 14:45 +0200, Thorsten Kukuk wrote: 
> On Tue, Jun 26, Piotr DÄ…browski wrote:
> 
> > My PAM module obtains the password from user with pam_get_authtok() and the
> > pam_conv structure from pam_get_item().
> > Is it possible to forward this password (or modified one) to the next PAM
> > module in the queue, so that it doesn't have to prompt the user for it
> > again?
> > If so, how can I do it?
> 
> Like you get it: pam_set_authtok().
> 
> http://www.linux-pam.org/Linux-PAM-html/mwg-expected-by-module-item.html#mwg-pam_set_item

Also note, that pam_get_authtok() already sets the appropriate pam item
and there is no pam_set_authtok() the call is pam_set_item(pamh,
PAM_AUTHTOK,..);

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Tomas Mraz
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