From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 11 12:33:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA22884 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 11 Apr 1998 12:33:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from eve.speakeasy.org (douglas@eve.speakeasy.org [199.238.226.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA22858 for ; Sat, 11 Apr 1998 12:33:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from douglas@speakeasy.org) Received: from localhost (douglas@localhost) by eve.speakeasy.org (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA17114 Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 12:33:32 -0700 (PDT) From: "Three goddesses, Venus figures" To: Dima Dorfman cc: Paul Dekkers , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: password change via the web?! In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980411122408.00934510@207.213.224.25> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- "Tact is just not saying true things. I'll pass." "No more frogs." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message