Re: User password change using web. Suggestions?

2000-10-27 Thread Daniel Dagneaux
I have implemented this into sqwebmail + SSL: qmail + mysql + vitual maildir et authmysql only environment, only the crypted password in DB is checked for all applications : pop3 + checkpasswd (local) , courier imapd (local) and sqwebmail+SSL (web Internet and local). The user account is

Re: User password change using web. Suggestions?

2000-10-27 Thread Sean Reifschneider
On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 10:43:58AM +0800, Philip Tong wrote: What is a good method to allow users to have their mail password changed using a Web Browser? The recent versions of "passwd" on Linux have the ability to change the password by piping the password in. This means that changing the

RE: User password change using web. Suggestions?

2000-10-27 Thread Wesley Wannemacher
This may be off base, but I normally set the default shell for most users to be /bin/passwd. Then spawn a telnet process to the local machine. Once the process is logged on, the process will be prompted for a new passwd. This is good, because no one needs root permissions through the web. I use a