Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 22:49:37 -0700 From: Justin Ashworth <ashworth@cs.montana.edu> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: ashworth@esus.cs.montana.edu, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Change another user's password? Message-ID: <33D05571.BE09B20C@cs.montana.edu> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970718181511.1390C-100000@localhost>
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Doug White wrote: > > On Fri, 18 Jul 1997, Justin Ashworth wrote: > > > > The superuser can run 'passwd user' to change user's password. > > > > > > Root can also modify /etc/master.passwd manually and regenerate the > > > password database. > > > > Yeah, you're the second one to suggest this. I guess I didn't make > > myself clear. I don't want to have the script change the password as > > root because if I did, anybody could get away with changing anybody > > else's password without knowing the original password. I need a way for > > the passwd program to prompt the user for the old password before > > assigning a new one and as far as I know, that can't be done by running > > passwd as root. > > Doesn't the system default passwd already do this for standard users? > > gdi,ttyp2,~,14>passwd > Changing local password for dwhite. > Old password: Yes, but read my original message...the users don't have shell access. That's the whole tough thing about this. I guess it's just not doable. -- - Justin Ashworth -- ashworth@cs.montana.edu - http://www.cs.montana.edu/~ashworth
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