Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 18:08:32 -0700 (MST) From: Brandon Gillespie <brandon@cold.org> To: Ernie Elu <ernie@spooky.eis.net.au> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Password change via Web page Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970130180648.22304A-100000@cold.org> In-Reply-To: <199701310014.KAA19887@spooky.eis.net.au>
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> Does anyone know of a method whereby a user can change his or her password > via a web page just using netscape or any other common browser? There are many, none of which you want to do because of extreme security problems (basically the CGI would hav to run as root, plus you would want to run it under an SSL server). BUT, if you insist upon this unsecure method, just have a cgi script running as root which calls 'passwd' with the correct username and password. Course, piping into passwd may be hard, use perl, or write your own 'passwd' program.. -Brandon Gillespie
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