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Date:      Tue, 16 Sep 1997 20:27:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Randy Katz <randyk@ccsales.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: AUTOMATE USER CHANGE PASSWORD
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970916202601.4310E-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970916113914.6393B-100000@ccsales.ccsales.com>

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On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Randy Katz wrote:

> I need to automate users being able to change their Unix password from 
> their Web page. Has anyone heard of or have they hacked passwd.c in order 
> for it to be able to do that?

How about the pw program, particularly the `usermod' -h option?  

pw is a command-line utility to make changes to the password database.  It
shouldn't be too hard to have a Perl script feed the appropriate fields to
it.  `man pw' for more info. 

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
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