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From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: passwd logging
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Sean Murphy wrote:
> I want to start logging to a file any succseses or failures when a user 
> envokes the passwd command.  I came across editing the pam.conf file but 
> I don't know what to add.  Can anyone help?

Look at syslogd (/etc/syslog.conf) and /var/log/security or /var/log/auth.log, 
I suspect that what you want to see is already being logged there.

-- 
-Chuck