From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 13 15:10:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA00103 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 15:10:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dove.peace.com.my (peace.com.my [202.184.153.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA29924 for ; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 22:09:59 GMT (envelope-from panda@peace.com.my) Received: from lovebox (love.com.my [202.184.153.17]) by dove.peace.com.my (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id FAA15811; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 05:52:36 +0800 (SGT) Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 05:52:36 +0800 (SGT) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19980414061450.012251a8@peace.com.my> X-Sender: panda@peace.com.my X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) To: Khetan Gajjar From: chas Subject: Re: password change via the web?! Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 01:36 AM 4/13/98 +0200, Khetan Gajjar wrote: >On Mon, 13 Apr 1998, chas wrote: > >>indeed. passwd.cgi and passwd.html are supplied as one of the >>many examples in the Expect-5.25 package available from the ports >>collection. > >I tried this, but kept getting Permission denied. I believe it's >related to the fact that user nobody owns the terminal that >expect is running from, and passwd wants the user to own >the terminal. > >Anyone actually gotten this to work ? I didn't get it to work either... which is why I wrote my own. Glad to hear that it wasn't just me. You can pick up perl variants from the excellent ISP scripts at : http://www.westnet.com/providers chas ps. sorry for the late reply... got distracted by your website iafrica.com :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message