Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 23:42:38 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Ryan Thompson" <ryan@sasknow.com>, "Lee Mark Mercado" <mercadolee@hotmail.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: passwd Message-ID: <004101c177e0$40cc6040$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0111272102550.10885-100000@ren.sasknow.com>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Ryan Thompson >Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 7:12 PM >To: Lee Mark Mercado >Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: passwd > > >Lee Mark Mercado wrote to freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG: > >> is there a way that a user could change their user-password >> without logging into telnet ? like: thru a form on a webpage ? >> >> any ideas will greatly help. Not all my users now about telnet and >> i was thinking that a website form for changing password might be >> easier for them. > >Sure... There are a few ways to do this. If your passwords are stored >in a UNIX passwd database (i.e., /etc/spwd.db), it's not as easy as >you might think, to change passwords over the web. If you're stuck >using the passwd database, there isn't a trivially straightforward way >to get the job done that I'm aware of. > >I have had good success, however, using the expect programming >language (from ports) in conjunction with su(1) and passwd(1), >running as a CGI script. The rest is just chat script logic that >parses the various inputs and outputs from passwd(1) in an >"interactive" way, and returns appropriate status to the user. > >If you (or others) are interested, I may be able to blow the dust off >of that script. > Another way to do this (assuming that the UNIX system is also a mailserver) is to compile and install the password-changing daemon program from Qualcom. Eudora actually has a button that talks to this and allows the user to change it's password, there's also a standalone Windows client that can do it, and there's a webform CGI that does it too using this daemon. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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