kcheckpass

Langue: en

Version: Jun, 01 2006 (openSuse - 09/10/07)

Section: 8 (Commandes administrateur)

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NAME

kcheckpass - KDE's authentication program

SYNOPSIS


kcheckpass

DESCRIPTION

Any program, such as a screensaver with a lock option, that needs to authenticate a user, can use kcheckpass. kcheckpass is a simple setuid program that returns 0 if the user has been authenticated, and 1 if not. Other programs that need user authentication can use kcheckpass witout having setuid status, thus simplifying programs and enhancing system security.

OPTIONS

kcheckpass takes no arguments. It reads the password from stdin.

SECURITY

kcheckpass must be setuid on systems that use shadow passwords.

SEE ALSO

shadow(5), passwd(5)

AUTHOR

Manpage written by Rodrigo Rubira Branco <rrbranco@br.ibm.com>