OK, I've Googled for this and cannot seem to quite find what I need.
So, I turn to the Gentle Geniuses here for help. Here is what I
need to do from within a script:
Given a username and a password (plain text):
1) Validate that the password is correct for that user *without actually
logging in*.
2) If the password is valid, return a list of all the groups the user belongs
to.
Otherwise, return some error string.
I seem to not be able to crack how to do 1.
I can do 2) by brute force - just parse through /etc/group - but this
misses the primary group a given user may belong to - and that requires
also scanning /etc/passwd and then looking up the corresponding primary
group in /etc/group. Is there a better way?
TIA,
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