"Ashley M. Kirchner" wrote: > > How can I have users change their passwords if they don't have shell access? >The biggest problem we have right now is people's passwords expiring (after a >mandatory set period) and them having to call IT to get it re-issued again. >Generally they start complaining when they start seeing that 'Your password will >expire in # days.' (14 days or less) message every time they check their email. Is >there some sort of mechanism where users can reset their passwords themselves without >having to give everyone shell access, and having to install a terminal program on >their system so they can SSH into the server? Most, if not all of them run some >flavor or another of Winblows or MacOS n... and the server is ... you guessed it, Red >Hat ...
How about a web interface? It could use a perl script to interact with the passwd program, or directly modify /etc/passwd. Regards, -- Javier Gostling Ingeniero de Sistemas Virtualia S.A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fono: +56 (2) 202-6264 x 130 Fax: +56 (2) 342-8763 Av. Kennedy 5757, of 1502 Las Condes Santiago Chile _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
