Date: Sun, 11 Aug 1996 21:14:12 +0000 From: "Ian Kallen" <ian@gamespot.com> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, questions@freebsd.org Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: poppassd Message-ID: <199608112108.VAA03916@gamespot.com>
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There are a bunch of users who's shell is /bin/false -- they only access mail and I kinda like _not_ having them muck around on the system. poppassd seemed like a good way to keep these pop-only people changing their password. Someone else must've encountered this before me, c'mon. > From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> > On Thu, 8 Aug 1996, Ian Kallen wrote: > > > I compiled poppassd to permit users who are accessing the pop server > > via Eudora to change their passwords but I think the program is > > choking on the fact that freebsd has the password file in a dbm > > database. Anybody successfully modified it to read and write to the > > dbm file instead of a plain text /etc/passwd? If ya can save us the > > coding, that'd be great! Thanks! > > I *highly* recommend people do __NOT__ use Eudora to change passwords. It > even ruins pop on the University's Suns. They should telnet & login and > use passwd to change their password instead. This allows you to enforce > minumum password standards too, which the U of O does. > > We had a situation where popd picked up the change but login didn't, and > it made a *huge* mess. > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > > > Ian Kallen ian@gamespot.com Director of Technology & Web Administration http://www.gamespot.com
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