/* * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 1989 - 1993, Julianne Frances Haugh * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 1996 - 1999, Marek Michałkiewicz * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2003 - 2005, Tomasz Kłoczko * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2007 - 2008, Nicolas François * * SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause */ #include #ident "$Id$" #include #include #include "prototypes.h" #include "defines.h" #include /* * valid - compare encrypted passwords * * Valid() compares the DES encrypted password from the password file * against the password which the user has entered after it has been * encrypted using the same salt as the original. Entries which do * not have a password file entry have a NULL pw_name field and this * is used to indicate that a dummy salt must be used to encrypt the * password anyway. */ bool valid (const char *password, const struct passwd *ent) { const char *encrypted; /*@observer@*/const char *salt; /* * Start with blank or empty password entries. Always encrypt * a password if no such user exists. Only if the ID exists and * the password is really empty do you return quickly. This * routine is meant to waste CPU time. */ if ((NULL != ent->pw_name) && ('\0' == ent->pw_passwd[0])) { if ('\0' == password[0]) { return true; /* user entered nothing */ } else { return false; /* user entered something! */ } } /* * If there is no entry then we need a salt to use. */ if ((NULL == ent->pw_name) || ('\0' == ent->pw_passwd[0])) { salt = "xx"; } else { salt = ent->pw_passwd; } /* * Now, perform the encryption using the salt from before on * the users input. Since we always encrypt the string, it * should be very difficult to determine if the user exists by * looking at execution time. */ encrypted = pw_encrypt (password, salt); /* * One last time we must deal with there being no password file * entry for the user. We use the pw_name == NULL idiom to * cause non-existent users to not be validated. */ if ( (NULL != ent->pw_name) && (NULL != encrypted) && (strcmp (encrypted, ent->pw_passwd) == 0)) { return true; } else { return false; } }