//=========================================== // Lumina-DE source code // Copyright (c) 2015, Ken Moore // Available under the 3-clause BSD license // See the LICENSE file for full details //=========================================== // This function provides the basic current-user password validation // The binary may need to have an effective root UID (setuid as root: "chmod 4555") // so that PAM can actually check the validity of the password. //=========================================== // SECURITY NOTE: // It is highly recomended that you have your PAM rules setup to disallow password checks for a time // after a number of failed attempts to prevent a user-level script from hammering this utility //=========================================== //Standard C libary #include #include //PAM/security libraries #include #include #include //#include int main(int argc, char** argv){ //Check the inputs if(argc!=2){ //Invalid inputs - show the help text puts("lumina-checkpass: Simple user-level check for password validity (for screen unlockers and such)."); puts("Usage: lumina-checkpass "); puts("Returns: 0 for a valid password, 1 for invalid"); return 1; } //Validate current user char* cUser = getlogin(); if( getuid()==0 ){ return 1; } //Will never check for root password char* cPassword = argv[1]; //Create the non-interactive PAM structures pam_handle_t *pamh; struct pam_conv pamc = { openpam_nullconv, NULL }; //Place the user-supplied password into the structure int ret = pam_start( "system", cUser, &pamc, &pamh); if(ret != PAM_SUCCESS){ return 1; } //could not init PAM ret = pam_set_item(pamh, PAM_AUTHTOK, cPassword); //Authenticate with PAM ret = pam_authenticate(pamh,0); //this can be true without verifying password if pam_self.so is used in the auth procedures (common) if( ret == PAM_SUCCESS ){ ret = pam_acct_mgmt(pamh,0); } //Check for valid, unexpired account and verify access restrictions //Stop the PAM instance pam_end(pamh,ret); //return verification result return ((ret==PAM_SUCCESS) ? 0 : 1); }