Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 07:41:23 +0000 From: Juri Tsibrovski <jt@sw.ru> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: Ian Kallen <ian@gamespot.com>, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: poppassd Message-ID: <320C3D23.446B9B3D@sw.ru> References: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960809220921.300H-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Doug White wrote: > > 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! > Last time I had hacked poppassd it was more than a year ago, on machine running fbsd 1.1.5.1 (yes, it still alive and even carries primary ns for our zone :) Check ftp://ftp.sw.ru/pub/mail/pop3/pwservers/pwserver.fbsd-1.1.5.1.tgz Sorry, I'm unsure, does it compiles under newer versions as is or need a trivial changes. > 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. Because that poppassd runs passwd itself, you still free to do so. -- jt - just typist :) P.S. I'm sorry for possible duplicate
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