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From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To: Alain Fauconnet <alain@cscoms.net>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Trouble with waitpid(2) porting poppasswd
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* Alain Fauconnet <alain@cscoms.net> [000730 23:56] wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I am doing a port of the poppasswd utility (well, one of the  numerous
> versions floating) because I  have  failed  to  find  a  port  already
> available.
>    
[snip]
> 
> The child:
> 
> - does a setsid(2) to start a new session
> - opens the slave part of the pty
> - does dup2(2) of  stdin, stdout and stderr to the slave part of the pty
> - adjusts some terminal attributes (ICANON, ~ONLCR, ~ECHO...)
> - changes uid and gid to those  of the target user
> - does execl(2)  /usr/bin/passwd.

I would just use 'pw' it'll make your life easier.

-Alfred


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