On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Clay Fandre wrote:

> "Seth I. Bernsen" wrote:
> > 
> > A while back I heard mention of a way to allow users to change their
> > password via a canned web interface?  Does anybody remember the
> > details?  Thanks.
> 
> At Honeywell I created a simple perl CGI web form that did this.

Be careful with security though. Use SSL, and make sure your script
doesn't let the user execute arbitrary commands on the machine!

Did your script at Honeywell switch user to the person who was doing the
change, then run passwd, or did it edit the password file directly? I'm
just curious.

Luke


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