Re: Monitoring the change of password in Unix

[Preston Connors <pconnors () atlantic net>]

PAM monitors password modifications. You can view these modifications in
the log file /var/log/secure under most circumstances.

More information on PAM:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluggable_Authentication_Modules

On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 21:03 -0700, 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.
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Thank you,

Preston Connors
Network Support Technician
Atlantic.Net