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How to check user name and password for Linux accounts

Zhao Yi

1/8/2009 3:41:00 AM

Can ruby check user name and password the same way as Linux OS? I use
"ypcat passwd" to list all users and its encrypted password. I want
users to input their user name and password to ruby and let ruby the
check its validation.

thanks.
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3 Answers

Roger Pack

1/8/2009 6:23:00 AM

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Zhao Yi wrote:
> Can ruby check user name and password the same way as Linux OS? I use
> "ypcat passwd" to list all users and its encrypted password. I want
> users to input their user name and password to ruby and let ruby the
> check its validation.
>
> thanks.

You may be able to find a wrapper to crypt(3) or whatever your system
uses to generate the hashes in the passwd file. Or a pure ruby one.
-=r
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Matt Harrison

1/8/2009 7:10:00 AM

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Zhao Yi wrote:
> Can ruby check user name and password the same way as Linux OS? I use
> "ypcat passwd" to list all users and its encrypted password. I want
> users to input their user name and password to ruby and let ruby the
> check its validation.
>
> thanks.

If your system uses PAM, like most modern linux distros, you might want
to look at Ruby/PAM[1]

I haven't tried it but a quick look through the examples seems like it
could work for you.

[1]http://ruby-pam.sourceforge.net/pam...

HTH

Matt

Brian Candler

1/8/2009 9:47:00 AM

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If you have the encrypted passwords from ypcat, then they are easy to
check.

irb(main):002:0> enc_pw = "aauZSSiXB7FbU"
=> "aauZSSiXB7FbU"
irb(main):003:0> "ruby".crypt(enc_pw) == enc_pw
=> true

irb(main):005:0> enc_pw = "$1$aaaa$jM9byC6tzuk.OYACuTQrJ/"
=> "$1$aaaa$jM9byC6tzuk.OYACuTQrJ/"
irb(main):006:0> "ruby".crypt(enc_pw) == enc_pw
=> true
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