Re: Web based password change
From: Ahmed Moustafa (amoustafa@pobox.com)Date: 03/30/02
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From: Ahmed Moustafa <amoustafa@pobox.com> Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 06:30:10 GMT
Guylene Gadal wrote:
> And - how secure is your web server??
>
> Mark Wake wrote:
>
>>Has anybody ever tried to put a web based front end onto a unix box for
>>changing a unix password. I need to be able to offer a facility whereby a
>>user can change their own password. It needs to be done via apache. I was
>>thinking along the lines of a cgi script to run the passwd command under
>>solaris. Any thoughts or experiences?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Mark.
I implemented that with an Expect CGI script which was of 2 steps:
1. login to the system (via telnet - of course SSH would be more secure).
2. interact with passwd to change the password.
It worked fine on a Solaris 2.7.
-- Ahmed Moustafa http://pobox.com/~amoustafa
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