Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 12:33:32 -0700 (PDT) From: "Three goddesses, Venus figures" <douglas@speakeasy.org> To: Dima Dorfman <webmaster@zwb.net> Cc: Paul Dekkers <psd@cgu.nl>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: password change via the web?! Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.980411123229.17039A-100000@eve.speakeasy.org> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980411122408.00934510@207.213.224.25>
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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.
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