./security/pam-pwauth_suid, PAM authentication module for unprivileged users

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Branch: pkgsrc-2008Q4, Version: 1.2, Package name: pam-pwauth_suid-1.2, Maintainer: drochner

The pam_pwauth_suid authentication module uses a setuid program
to verify a password against the encrypted password in the
database used by the system. This way, an unprivileged user can
verify his own passsword stored in a shadow password database.
There might be some risk that the communication between the
invoking program and the setuid program is logged, or for abuse
for dictionary attacks.

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