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Re: Monitoring the change of password in Unix


From: Eitan Adler <eitanadlerlist () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:11:28 -0500

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.
I don't think there exists one by default.  You could probably make
passwd a wrapper and add the log entries yourself.



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