Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 17:31:36 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: staf wagemakers <staf.wagemakers@belgacom.net>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disillusioned with PAM Message-ID: <200312121731.36477.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20031211100520.GA3181@staflaptop.antw.the-ecorp.com> References: <20031210170417.B21993@tikitechnologies.com> <20031211100520.GA3181@staflaptop.antw.the-ecorp.com>
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On Thursday 11 December 2003 20:35, staf wagemakers wrote: > > /usr/bin/passwd will be a real pain to use for a Web GUI as it > > requires a pty, which means extensive "coding around it" to fake one up > > for it a la poppassd. I thought PAM was going to solve this for me, > > because of the "password management" function designed in... only it > > appears so far that no PAM method which implements local password > > changing actually exists on FreeBSD. What a mess. > > CGIpaf supports FreeBSD without pam basically it runs "pwd_mkdb" to > update the password. If you need c functions to update a password the > source might be useful to you. http://staf.patat.org/cgipaf/ The 'pw' command can change passwords (among many other things) and it does not need a pty, eg.. echo newpassword | pw usermod foobar -h 0 In a CGI you would open a pipe to pw and feed it the password. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5
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