Or you can do what I am trying to do, which is creating a Web form that
allows them to enter their passwords and excute an expect script to do
the work. Good luck, I am still working on this.
Seif Zadeh Hossein wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Bug Hunter wrote:
>
> > You can simply add a line in /etc/passwd, with the shell set to
> /dev/null,
> > and run 'passwd' as root to set the password in their passwd or
> shadow file.
> > this will give them a mailbox but no shell account.
>
> I'd set /bin/passwd (or whereever it may be) as their shell in
> /etc/passwd
> file. So users can telnet to the machine to change their password
> without
> being able to do anything else. Otherwise 200+ people are going to
> hassle
> you evertime they want to change their password, in which case I don't
>
> wanna be in your shoes :-)
>
> cheers,
> Hossein
>
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