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Change existing perl script/ or write new simple one.

Asked by: shakoush2001

Hi All
I am using OpenVPN in username/pwd mode. In other words with no certifcates. Apart from the security risk that I know I am facing a problem.

The present existing perl script "displayed below" waits for the input to be sent from the client, after that it is suppsed to create a hashed version of the password and compare it to /etc/shadow or /etc/passwd I guess. I am not really sure. From the documentation it says it will check a file I create with user on a line and pwd on another line. Well, I could not get it to work and I am not really interested in using PAM.

In short, I need a perl script working similarly to the below in terms of waiting for input and presenting 0 for failure and 1 for success it should be able to do the following:

1- Parse/receive input arguments the same way the script below does.
2- Compare the username/pwd provided against a file where username + password pairs are one pair per line, example username:password
3- Return 1 for a match and 0 for  failure.

Thanks

#!/usr/bin/perl
 
# OpenVPN PAM AUTHENTICATON
#   This script can be used to add PAM-based authentication
#   to OpenVPN 2.0.  The OpenVPN client must provide
#   a username/password, using the --auth-user-pass directive.
#   The OpenVPN server should specify --auth-user-pass-verify
#   with this script as the argument and the 'via-file' method
#   specified.  The server can also optionally specify
#   --client-cert-not-required and/or --username-as-common-name.
 
# SCRIPT OPERATION
#   Return success or failure status based on whether or not a
#   given username/password authenticates using PAM.
#   Caller should write username/password as two lines in a file
#   which is passed to this script as a command line argument.
 
# CAVEATS
#   * Requires Authen::PAM module, which may also
#     require the pam-devel package.
#   * May need to be run as root in order to
#     access username/password file.
 
use Authen::PAM;
use POSIX;
 
# This "conversation function" will pass
# $password to PAM when it asks for it.
 
sub my_conv_func {
    my @res;
    while ( @_ ) {
        my $code = shift;
        my $msg = shift;
        my $ans = "";
 
        $ans = $password if $msg =~ /[Pp]assword/;
 
        push @res, (PAM_SUCCESS(),$ans);
    }
    push @res, PAM_SUCCESS();
    return @res;
}
 
# Identify service type to PAM
$service = "login";
 
# Get username/password from file
 
if ($ARG = shift @ARGV) {
    if (!open (UPFILE, "<$ARG")) {
        print "Could not open username/password file: $ARG\n";
use Authen::PAM;
use POSIX;
 
# This "conversation function" will pass
# $password to PAM when it asks for it.
 
sub my_conv_func {
    my @res;
    while ( @_ ) {
        my $code = shift;
        my $msg = shift;
        my $ans = "";
 
        $ans = $password if $msg =~ /[Pp]assword/;
 
        push @res, (PAM_SUCCESS(),$ans);
    }
    push @res, PAM_SUCCESS();
    return @res;
}
 
# Identify service type to PAM
$service = "login";
 
# Get username/password from file
 
if ($ARG = shift @ARGV) {
    if (!open (UPFILE, "<$ARG")) {
        print "Could not open username/password file: $ARG\n";
if (!$username || !$password) {
    print "Username/password not found in file: $ARG\n";
    exit 1;
}
 
chomp $username;
chomp $password;
 
close (UPFILE);
 
# Initialize PAM object
 
if (!ref($pamh = new Authen::PAM($service, $username, \&my_conv_func))) {
    print "Authen::PAM init failed\n";
    exit 1;
}
 
# Authenticate with PAM
 
$res = $pamh->pam_authenticate;
 
# Return success or failure
 
if ($res == PAM_SUCCESS()) {
    exit 1;
} else {
    print "Auth '$username' failed, PAM said: ", $pamh->pam_strerror($res), "\n";
    exit 0;
}

                                  
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Asked On
2009-07-14 at 14:13:46ID24570279
Topics

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Python Scripting Language

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Linux Programming

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Answers

 

by: Adam314Posted on 2009-07-14 at 14:27:41ID: 24854253

Was there a copy/paste error in the script?  It doesn't look correct.

 

by: shakoush2001Posted on 2009-07-14 at 14:55:22ID: 24854464

 

by: Adam314Posted on 2009-07-14 at 15:02:50ID: 24854509

Replace lines 66 - 77 with this:

my $Line = <UPFILE>;
chomp $Line;
if($Line !~ /^(.*?):(.*)$/) {
	print "Username/password not found in file: $ARG\n";
	exit 1;
}
 
my $username = $1;
my $password = $2;
                                              
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by: shakoush2001Posted on 2009-07-14 at 15:07:55ID: 24854543

One thing to note here is that the username password is blank text in the file and sent over unhashed, while from what I understood from the file is that it uses pam to hash the passwords. Another thing here is that the scripts seems to use the login mechansim of linux to do something ..  I dont need that as well.

 

by: Adam314Posted on 2009-07-14 at 15:14:56ID: 24854584

The code snipped I gave will read a single line from a file.  If that line does not have the a username followed by a colon followed by a password, like "username:password", it will display a message and exit with 1.  If it does have that pattern, it'll save the username to the $username variable, and the password to the $password variable.

The script expects the name of the file to be supplied on the command line.  This was the way your original script works, and that was not changed.

If this wasn't what you wanted, I misunderstood your request.

 

by: shakoush2001Posted on 2009-07-16 at 11:28:22ID: 24872117

The thing I am concerned about is that the original script uses the login facilities of the linux system, I dont need those and  the script also uses pam authentication at:

#
if (!ref($pamh = new Authen::PAM($service, $username, \&my_conv_func))) {
#
    print "Authen::PAM init failed\n";
#
    exit 1;

This I dont need as well...I simply want a script to check the username and password against the text file in and take input and out put in the way the orignal script does without going into any other features.


Thanks for all of your help

 

by: shakoush2001Posted on 2009-07-16 at 12:04:22ID: 24872559

I did test the code with the changes you suggested and I got :

212.36.208.1:31055 Expected Remote Options hash (VER=V4): '41690919'
Thu Jul 16 12:03:20 2009 212.36.208.1:31055 TLS: Initial packet from 212.36.208.1:31055, sid=3ee922c5 118483e1
Username/password not found in file: ./newpassword
Thu Jul 16 12:03:24 2009 212.36.208.1:31055 TLS Auth Error: Auth Username/Password verification failed for peer
Thu Jul 16 12:03:24 2009 212.36.208.1:31055 Control Channel: TLSv1, cipher TLSv1/SSLv3 DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA
Thu Jul 16 12:03:24 2009 212.36.208.1:31055 [] Peer Connection Initiated with 212.36.208.1:31055
Thu Jul 16 12:03:25 2009 212.36.208.1:31055

 

by: Adam314Posted on 2009-07-16 at 15:45:52ID: 24874594

>>I simply want a script to check the username and password against the text file in and take input and
>>out put in the way the orignal script does
The original script gets the username and password through PAM.  If you don't want to use PAM, but want to get them the same way, I'm not sure what you want.

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