From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 7 11: 1:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu (broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu [128.84.247.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59FB9155ED for ; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 11:01:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU) Received: from graphics.cornell.edu (localhost.graphics.cornell.edu) by broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu with ESMTP (1.37.109.16/16.2) id AA232647237; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 14:00:37 -0400 Message-Id: <199909071800.AA232647237@broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: "Christopher T. Griffiths" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Web based passwd changing program In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 07 Sep 1999 13:46:43 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 14:00:37 -0400 From: Mitch Collinsworth Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG There are probably a few zillions of these around the net, though probably not a large number have been made public. I would personally like one written in perl that deals with NIS passwords. I would write it myself (someday when time allows), but I bet it's already out there if I knew where to look. I can think of no good reason to write it in C. How many hits does a password changing web page ever really get, even at a busy place like hotmail? -Mitch >Hi everyone, > >I found a very nice web enable password changing script written in c that >currently works in linux and solaris. It seems to be laid out very nicely >and I would like to know if anyone would care to take a crack at getting >it to work on FBSD. It also uses shadow passwords so hacking at it and >getting it to work with master.passwd should not be a huge problem :) well >maybe it will. Anyway I do not have the time to do this myself and I was >wondering if any of you would like to see if they can get this to work so >that it would possibly benefit all of us. Also another idea would be if >we could get it to work, to maybe put it in the ports tree. > >Just a couple of ideas. > >Please email me back if this sounds apealing and I will give you the >download location for the source code. > >Thanks > >Chris > >Christopher T. Griffiths >Senior Network/Systems Administrator >Quansoo Group Inc. >cgriffiths@quansoo.com >Phone: (302) 777-4141 >Fax: (302) 777-4142 >Mobile: (302) 521-3436 > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message