I am planning to use the below the Authen PAM script(Example from the CPAN site http://nik.pelov.name/files/Authen/PAM/FAQ.html#2__can_i_change_a_password_non_interactively) from mod_perl
Will the username,password we supply can be monitored on the server using ps -ef command? 

use Authen::PAM;
$service = "passwd";
$username = "foo";
$oldpassword = "old_pass";
$newpassword = "new_pass"; sub my_conv_func {
my @res;
while ( @_ ) {
my $code = shift;
my $msg = shift;
my $ans = ""; $ans = $username if ($code == PAM_PROMPT_ECHO_ON() );
if ($code == PAM_PROMPT_ECHO_OFF() ) {
$ans = $oldpassword if ($state == 0);
$ans = $newpassword if ($state == 1);
$ans = $newpassword if ($state == 2);
$state++;
}
push @res, (PAM_SUCCESS(),$ans);
}
push @res, PAM_SUCCESS();
return @res;
}
ref($pamh = new Authen::PAM($service, $username, \&my_conv_func)) ||
die "Error code $pamh during PAM init!"; $state = 0;
$res = $pamh->pam_chauthtok;
print $pamh->pam_strerror($res),"\n" unless $res == PAM_SUCCESS();

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Edited by planetscape - added code tags

In reply to Authen PAM security question by Anonymous Monk

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