From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 11 21:19:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA29512 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 11 Aug 1996 21:19:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gamespot.com (ns1.gamespot.com [206.169.18.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA29507 for ; Sun, 11 Aug 1996 21:19:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tech-a.gamespot.com (tech-a.gamespot.com [206.169.18.59]) by gamespot.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA03916; Sun, 11 Aug 1996 21:08:49 GMT Message-Id: <199608112108.VAA03916@gamespot.com> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Ian Kallen" To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 11 Aug 1996 21:14:12 +0000 Subject: Re: poppassd Reply-to: ian@gamespot.com CC: questions@freebsd.org Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.23) Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 > 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