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Re: Looking for a perl script for linux
On Tue, 11 May 1999, James Olin Oden wrote:
> Oded Arbel wrote:
>
> > you need to write a c program to do this, otherwise it's as secure as
> > posting your passwords on a bill board (not that the whole practice is
> > very secure, but it's better then letting your non-techs hang around in
> > the system with root premissions).
> >
>
> I am actually working on a similar project (or I was and will be again L-RD
> whole thing to initiate from a web form that got the users name (well really
> it already should know whom the user is), the current password, and the the
> new password twice.
actually, what the guy wanted was a complete user manager system on the
web (as fast as I understood). nothing horendous about it, my upstream
provider use one (and they sometime leave the URL lying around places it
shouldn't...), but it's a real hassle to write...
for just allowing users to change their password through CGI, I found this
nice program (http://www.win.co.nz/web-passwd/) which attempts to do just
that. it still has some problems, and I modifying it to my use, but it
generally does what you want to do in a single simple executable.
I'm still working on user admining.. it's gonna be a while.
Oded