Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 21:05:31 +0100 (BST) From: Lee Johnston <ljohnston@cyberworld.demon.co.uk> To: khetan@iafrica.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: password change via the web?! Message-ID: <199804142005.VAA01907@gate.ljis.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980414061450.012251a8@peace.com.my> from chas at "Apr 14, 98 05:52:36 am"
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> 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, but I created my own Expect/Perl script.
It telnets to the password host and uses passwd to update the passwords.
It's available from:
http://www.freebsd-uk.eu.org/webpw.tar.gz
Regards, Lee.
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