Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 21:20:58 -0700 From: "Randy A. Katz" <randyk@ccsales.com> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AUTOMATE USER CHANGE PASSWORD Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19970916212058.009fb520@ccsales.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970916202601.4310E-100000@localhost> References: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970916113914.6393B-100000@ccsales.ccsales.com>
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This requires the user executing it to be root, according to the man pw page, first paragraph, oh well. Any other suggestions? At 08:27 PM 9/16/97 -0700, Doug White wrote: >On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Randy Katz wrote: > >> I need to automate users being able to change their Unix password from >> their Web page. Has anyone heard of or have they hacked passwd.c in order >> for it to be able to do that? > >How about the pw program, particularly the `usermod' -h option? > >pw is a command-line utility to make changes to the password database. It >shouldn't be too hard to have a Perl script feed the appropriate fields to >it. `man pw' for more info. > >Doug White | University of Oregon >Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant >http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major >Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo > >
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