Track root password changes

Hello !!

Can anyone tell if there is a way to track the root password changes?
For that matter, any user changing his/her password?

If yes, please write as how.

TIA
DK

On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 09:59:37 -0800, Mulbagal wrote:

> Hello !!
>
> Can anyone tell if there is a way to track the root password changes?
> For that matter, any user changing his/her password?
>
> If yes, please write as how.
>
> TIA
> DK

Just make a copy of the password file on to read-only media (CDR) and run
diff on it and check for changes its primitive but will do what you want
and you could write a perl script or bash script whatever to check it
every once and a while and mail you the differences..


john doe what do ya know ho ho

Mulbagal <dubbakor@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hello !!

> Can anyone tell if there is a way to track the root password changes?
> For that matter, any user changing his/her password?

> If yes, please write as how.

Try:
man chage

Take a look at the "-l" switch.

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Thanks to both of you !!

I think the "chage -l root" gives what I want for now, though I wanted
something logged in the systems log or so.

Thanks Agasin,
DK

Mulbagal <dubbakor@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks to both of you !!

> I think the "chage -l root" gives what I want for now, though I wanted
> something logged in the systems log or so.

You can run something like this from cron if you like:

initlog -c "echo password `chage -l root`"

Hint:
man initlog

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