Hi all,
I'm somehow stuck in the loop now and am hoping some of you can give me pointers on how to proceed. Due to a customer requirement, I need to build a simple web-based (via cgi or php) script to change the system password. They found that sshing to the server and typing passwd to change the password is wee too involving hence the need to use a much friendlier interface. Letting the sysadmins change the user's password is not a good idea, as the sysadmins are outsourced and the users value their privacy. FYI, all the users has a /sbin/nologin shell set. I'm running FreeBSD 5.2.1.
I understand there are two primary way to change a user's password, either via passwd or pw. Since pw is a root-only program, that doesn't seem the best way to do it over the web so I'm left with passwd.
Since passwd gets its input from the controlling terminal, I simply cannot get an environment variable passed via stdin. Reading over daemon(8) I finally got it that I need to detach passwd from the controlling terminal and run it as a daemon.
This is where I entered the loop and never seem to get out of it. I couldn't get passwd to run properly because once it entered daemon mode, it locked up the whole terminal and subsequent tries also suffered the same fate.
If there's something that I have missed or there's better alternatives, please point it out. :)
Thanks, Ihsan _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
