Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1998 13:34:31 +0200 (CEST) From: Paul Dekkers <psd@cgu.nl> To: "Three goddesses, Venus figures" <douglas@speakeasy.org> Cc: Dima Dorfman <webmaster@zwb.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: password change via the web?! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980412133240.630B-100000@chippie.cgu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.96.980411123229.17039A-100000@eve.speakeasy.org>
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On Sat, 11 Apr 1998, Three goddesses, Venus figures wrote: > On Sat, 11 Apr 1998, Dima Dorfman wrote: > > > Such a script would be very hard to make secure, because to change a > > password, you have to run with root's permissions. > > Actually, you could use a perl/expect combo to do this without running as > root and without hacking the passwd code. Can you give me an example? Tried to play with open (PWD, "passwd |"); and/or open (PWD, "|passwd"); (Can't I combine those?) but I didn't manage to get things working. By the way, I'd prefer to have this done under C, because I think I need a suid root prog to change a password, and I don't like suidperl because people get root realy easy with it. Any sulution? Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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