Date: Sun, 17 Aug 1997 20:54:32 -0500 From: Tim Tsai <tim@futuresouth.com> To: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au> Cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Changing password via web ? Message-ID: <19970817205432.51727@futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970818115241.308W-100000@panda.hilink.com.au>; from Daniel O'Callaghan on Mon, Aug 18, 1997 at 11:53:06AM %2B1000 References: <19970817202416.14850@futuresouth.com> <Pine.BSF.3.91.970818115241.308W-100000@panda.hilink.com.au>
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On Mon, Aug 18, 1997 at 11:53:06AM +1000, Daniel O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sun, 17 Aug 1997, Tim Tsai wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 18, 1997 at 10:27:48AM +1000, Daniel O'Callaghan wrote: > > > You can't use command line args to passwd, because they are visible using > > > ps(1), whereas environment vars are not visible to other processes. > > > > Yes it is. Try ps -ae. > > Yikes. You are right. OK, back to the drawing board. See http://www.westnet.com/providers for poppassd and wwwpass. Or, you can modify passwd to read from STDIN for the actual password (which pw already supports, BTW). Tim
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