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Re: Monitoring the change of password in Unix


From: Klaus Zing <klaus.zing () googlemail com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:50:01 +0200


On Jan 21, 2009, at 6:03 AM, wilson () email chop edu wrote:

Is there a way in Unix, without extra software, to monitor the use of the "passwrd" command to reset the password? Perferably something that sent the event to Syslog.

You can check master.passwd or shadow file changes periodically.

-- kz



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