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Date:      Fri, 31 Jan 1997 12:56:36 +0800 (HKT)
From:      Doug Kwan ~{9XUq5B~} <ctkwan@cs.hku.hk>
To:        Brandon Gillespie <brandon@cold.org>
Cc:        Ernie Elu <ernie@spooky.eis.net.au>, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Password change via Web page
Message-ID:  <Pine.SUN.3.91.970131125417.19166A-100000@champion>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970130180648.22304A-100000@cold.org>

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On Thu, 30 Jan 1997, Brandon Gillespie wrote:

> 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).

Not necessarily. I wrote a CGI programme in my system which calls
yppasswdd to update the users' passwords. I do not have SSL running
yet but I can restrict the CGI to handle requests only from our dial-up
lines.

-Doug




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