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From: Daniel Corbe <corbe@corbe.net>
To: Waitman Gobble <gobble.wa@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: PAM Application Programming and Password prompts
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Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2013 20:07:42 +0300
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Waitman Gobble <gobble.wa@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 7:29 AM, Daniel Corbe <corbe@corbe.net> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>    
>     I hope this is the right place to ask programming related questions.
>    
>     I'm looking at the sample PAM application in the handbook and it appears
>     straight-froward enough.
>    
>     But pam_authenticate() seems to emit its own password prompt and there
>     seems to be no obvious way to simply feed it a plain text password.
>    
>     I'm manually collecting a password from the user.
>    
>     Can someone point me in the right direction?
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> Take a look at the src for su in src/usr.bin/su/su.c
> ie,
> https://dx.burplex.com/src/usr.bin/su/su.c
>
> Also, here is a simple example of Qt authenticating with pam.
>
> https://github.com/creamy/qt-pam-example/blob/master/mainwindow.cpp
>
> --
> Waitman Gobble
> San Jose California USA
> 510-830-7975

I think you answered my question with the second link.  I need to look
at pam_conv a little more closely. 

Thank you.

-Daniel