checkpassword: Uniform password-checking interface¹

checkpassword provides a simple, uniform password-checking interface to all root applications. It is suitable for use by applications such as login, ftpd, and pop3d.

There are checkpassword-compatible tools that support alternate password databases, secret login names, long passwords, subaccounts, one-time passwords, detailed accounting, and many other features. Applications that use the checkpassword interface will work with all of these tools.

... part of T2, get it here

URL: https://cr.yp.to/checkpwd.html

Author: Dan J. Bernstein <djb [at] cr [dot] yp [dot] to>
Maintainer: The T2 Project <t2 [at] t2-project [dot] org>

License: Free-to-use
Status: Stable
Version: 0.90

Download: http://cr.yp.to/checkpwd/ checkpassword-0.90.tar.gz

T2 source: checkpassword.cache
T2 source: checkpassword.desc
T2 source: head_n.patch
T2 source: hotfix-errno.patch

Build time (on reference hardware): 1% (relative to binutils)²

Installed size (on reference hardware): 0.03 MB, 6 files

Dependencies (build time detected): 00-dirtree bash binutils coreutils diffutils findutils gawk grep linux-header make patch sed tar

Installed files (on reference hardware): n.a.

¹) This page was automatically generated from the T2 package source. Corrections, such as dead links, URL changes or typos need to be performed directly on that source.

²) Compatible with Linux From Scratch's "Standard Build Unit" (SBU).