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Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 21:20:58 -0700
To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: AUTOMATE USER CHANGE PASSWORD
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This requires the user executing it to be root, according to the man pw
page, first paragraph, oh well. Any other suggestions?

At 08:27 PM 9/16/97 -0700, Doug White wrote:
>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. 
>
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