From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jan 30 17:08:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA18410 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 30 Jan 1997 17:08:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from cold.org (cold.org [206.81.134.103]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA18405 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 1997 17:08:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (brandon@localhost) by cold.org (8.8.3/8.8.3) with SMTP id SAA22306; Thu, 30 Jan 1997 18:08:32 -0700 (MST) Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 18:08:32 -0700 (MST) From: Brandon Gillespie To: Ernie Elu cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Password change via Web page In-Reply-To: <199701310014.KAA19887@spooky.eis.net.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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