Thus said "Sam Varshavchik" on Sat, 27 Oct 2001 17:19:59 EDT:

> When the userdb  password module is used, a  password change involves 
> running the userdb command to update the userdb password file.

So the check is mainly in there for the userdb module?

> This is an area where I always have a healthy sense of paranoia.

Paranoia is good.  :-) I just didn't expect it  to happen since previous
versions of sqwebmail  didn't have this check. At least  on of our users
had a password with a ';' in it which resulted in a call to me.

I can always modify  the code myself since in my case  an attack at this
point can  only be mounted by  someone that has already  athenticated to
the  apache  webserver via  AuthUserFile.  Do  I  trust my  users?  Good
question. There  is no  direct path  to the  sqwebmail binary  except by
being authenticated, which also means  they have to enter their username
and password  twice (unless they  use that  blessed new IE  feature that
remembers your passwords for you).

Andy
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