Re: remote passwd change

[buzzdee <reitenba () fh-brandenburg de>]

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Am Thursday 02 October 2003 22:21 schrieb Ruiz Cifuentes, Rolando Matias (CL - 
Santiago):
> Here is the scenario:
> RedHat 7.2 using shadows passwords -> used for popmail use
> popmail users are RedHat users, so their password are in /etc/shadow
> users dont know nothing about linux (they are windows basic users)
>
> Here is my problem:
> I need to make them (~200 users) able to change their linux (mail) pasword
> remotely, in the easiest every ever thought way. how can i do this? (i'
> dont care if passwds are send in plaint text over the net) I' was thiking
> in something like:
some time ago i had the same problem. i solved it using a cgi script written 
in expect which itself called passwd. there is an example script at
http://expect.nist.gov/cgi.tcl/

hth
sebastian
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