Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 22:12:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Ian Kallen <ian@gamespot.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: poppassd Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960809220921.300H-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199608081213.MAA03840@gamespot.com>
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On Thu, 8 Aug 1996, Ian Kallen wrote: > I compiled poppassd to permit users who are accessing the pop server > via Eudora to change their passwords but I think the program is > choking on the fact that freebsd has the password file in a dbm > database. Anybody successfully modified it to read and write to the > dbm file instead of a plain text /etc/passwd? If ya can save us the > coding, that'd be great! Thanks! I *highly* recommend people do __NOT__ use Eudora to change passwords. It even ruins pop on the University's Suns. They should telnet & login and use passwd to change their password instead. This allows you to enforce minumum password standards too, which the U of O does. We had a situation where popd picked up the change but login didn't, and it made a *huge* mess. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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