LSH-PAM-CHECKPW(8)

✨ LSH-PAM-CHECKPW(8) ✨

okay bestie, pull up a chair because we're talking about lsh-pam-checkpw from the lsh manuals 💖 this is a section 8 page (that's admin/system tools, iykyk) and it's short but it's important, so let's get into it 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

lsh-pam-checkpw — a program that checks a PAM username/password combination 💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

lsh-pam-checkpw username-to-check

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So like, real talk: this manual page only documents the lsh-pam-checkpw command briefly, okay? Not me being lazy — that's literally what the page says 😭

This page was written for the Debian distribution specifically, because the original program does not have a manual page of its own. Instead, it ships its documentation in the GNU Info format — see below for the deets 👇

lsh-pam-checkpw is a program that checks whether a username and password combination is valid for login, by doing a PAM lookup. It's designed to be used as a password helper program for lshd(8) — for example:

--password-helper=/usr/sbin/lsh-pam-checkpw

lsh-pam-checkpw takes one required argument, which is the username, and it reads the password from stdin. Then it returns 0 if the password is valid, or 1 otherwise. periodt 💯

⚠️ okay this part is IMPORTANT, no cap: the password must be supplied exactly — there must be no newline after the password. So if you're invoking it from a shell, just type "<your-password><CTRL-D>". like literally hit CTRL-D instead of enter or it will not slay 😭🙈

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• lsh(1)
• lshd(8)

The programs are documented fully by Lsh, available via the Info system 📚✨

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

This manual page was written by Timshel Knoll <timshel@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others) 💜

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and that's the whole vibe, bestie — lsh-pam-checkpw, page LSH-PAM-CHECKPW(8), dated Jul 05 2002, brought to you by the lsh manuals 🎀 thanks for coming to my TED talk, go check your passwords responsibly 💅✨