Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 20:34:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Randy A. Katz" <randyk@ccsales.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AUTOMATE USER CHANGE PASSWORD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970917202803.5533C-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19970916212058.009fb520@ccsales.com>
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On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Randy A. Katz wrote: > This requires the user executing it to be root, according to the man pw > page, first paragraph, oh well. Any other suggestions? Isn't there a setuid()-type function for perl? You'll want to check that everything is OK before performing the switch to root. I can't find my camel book so I can't confim this (unless it was added for Perl5). Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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