[SOLVED] In C, given userID and password, can I verify the user?
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In C, given userID and password, can I verify the user?
I have a C program used for authentication with an email server. The server passes the C program the username and password. Is there a function I can call, e.g. verify_user(username, password)?
More info: I've come across this link http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Shadow-Password-HOWTO-8.html which may or may not be what I am looking for. But, I do not have libshadow.a on my system, nor referenced headers like shadow/pwauth.h, but I do have shadow.h
I'm using Slackware64 14.1. The system says package shadow-4.1.5.1-x86_64-3_slack14.1 is installed.
I figured it out. The following example assumes argv[1] is the username and argv[2] is the plain-text password to authenticate. Note that access to /etc/shadow can only be done as root. Compile the program below with:
$ gcc testauth.c -o testauth -lcrypt
Code:
/*
* Print information from the password entry
* about the user name given as argv[1].
*/
int main( int argc, char** argv )
{
char *epasswd;
struct spwd* sp;
if (argc < 2) {
printf("s username \n", argv[0]);
return(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
if( ( sp = getspnam( argv[1] ) ) == (struct spwd*)0) {
fprintf( stderr, "getspnam: unknown s\n",
argv[1] );
return( EXIT_FAILURE );
}
printf( "login name\t%s\n", sp->sp_namp );
printf( "password\t%s\n", sp->sp_pwdp );
epasswd = crypt(argv[2], sp->sp_pwdp);
printf("crypt:\t\t%s, %d\n", epasswd, strcmp(epasswd, sp->sp_pwdp));
return( EXIT_SUCCESS );
}
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