Subject: Re: changing user's password through web interface
From: Jamie Hushower (hushower@alaska-geeks.com)
Date: Wed Dec 31 2003 - 07:31:50 AKST
If your users have ssh or if you can rig a CGI script from the Web
server, the following may work: Edit the /etc/passwd file on the mail
server so that the users have a shell of /usr/bin/passwd (this assumes
that users do not need regular shell access). When a user or script logs
on via ssh or locally the only interaction allowed is to change a
password. ssh and the limited shell logon are terminated once the
password is changed without further input from the user/script.
-Jamie
Scott Johnson wrote:
> I have two boxes.... one being my web server the other being my mail
> server. I'm looking for a program/script to install on my web server
> (Apache) that would allow a user to change their password stored on the
> mail server. Users are set up under regular user accounts on the mail
> server. Right now, I am doing this via Webmin - the user connects to
> the Webmin server on the mail box, logs in, and changes their password.
> I would prefer it if the user could just change it through a web page
> on the web server, however I don't know how to set it up so the mail
> server would accept a connection from the web server and then change
> authentication tokens. Can anyone think of a different way of doing
> this other than Webmin? Is they way I have it now probably the
> easiest?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Scott
>
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