Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 06:44:36 -0600 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Buliwyf McGraw <buliwyf@libertad.univalle.edu.co> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changing Passwords through the web Message-ID: <3C7E2634.87A8D746@centtech.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.44.0202231027560.50143-100000@libertad.univalle.edu.co>
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They way I have done this type of thing in the past, is I have a web/cgi script that takes the users old password, checks it against the password file, takes the new passwords, checks it against a "bad password" list, then I store it, and have a cron job run a separate script (as root) to do the password changing. I feel it protects you against suid web stuff (which I am totally against). If you can write programs well and know how to look for holes of that sort, you should be fine. Eric Buliwyf McGraw wrote: > > Hello friends... > I was using webmin to create users by the web... but i need > to do an interface for users can change them passwords by the > web too. > I can not use webmin, because the webmin user need a password... > i need an open interface, for everyone who wants change his own > password, can do it... > I was thinking on suexec apache service... but in the web site > i found that suexec doesn't support root scripts anymore... > so, i get lost... > > Any question or sugestion is welcome. > Thank you > > ======================================================================= > Buliwyf McGraw > Administrador del Servidor Libertad > Centro de Servicios de Informacion > Universidad del Valle > ======================================================================= > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology If at first you don't succeed, sky diving is probably not for you. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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