Commit password change

Digant Kasundra digant at uta.edu
Mon Aug 30 12:52:25 EDT 2004


Thanks.  I'll take a look into this.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Hascall [mailto:john at iastate.edu] 
> Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 11:42 AM
> To: Digant Kasundra
> Cc: kerberos at MIT.EDU
> Subject: Re: Commit password change 
> 
> 
> 
> > Can someone tell me where in the code a password change is actually 
> > committed?  I see a handful or wrappers and related 
> functions but I'm 
> > curious is there is one single point where a 
> principal/password pair 
> > are written.
> 
> Almost.  You'll want to look in 
> src/lib/kadm5/srv/svr_principal.c We put hooks in these functions:
>    kadm5_create_principal_3()
>    kadm5_delete_principal()
>    kadm5_rename_principal()
>    kadm5_chpass_principal_3()
> 
> > My plan is to hook into that function to send 
> principal/password pairs 
> > to an external auth service so that passwords can stay in sync.
> 
> Several of us have already done this.  If you search the 
> archives you'll probably find something that will help you.
> 
> 
> John
> 


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