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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: AUTOMATE USER CHANGE PASSWORD
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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. 

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