Re: Disillusioned with PAM

From: Daniel O'Connor (doconnor_at_gsoft.com.au)
Date: 12/12/03

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    To: staf wagemakers <staf.wagemakers@belgacom.net>, hackers@freebsd.org
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 17:31:36 +1030

    On Thursday 11 December 2003 20:35, staf wagemakers wrote:
    > > /usr/bin/passwd will be a real pain to use for a Web GUI as it
    > > requires a pty, which means extensive "coding around it" to fake one up
    > > for it a la poppassd. I thought PAM was going to solve this for me,
    > > because of the "password management" function designed in... only it
    > > appears so far that no PAM method which implements local password
    > > changing actually exists on FreeBSD. What a mess.
    >
    > CGIpaf supports FreeBSD without pam basically it runs "pwd_mkdb" to
    > update the password. If you need c functions to update a password the
    > source might be useful to you. http://staf.patat.org/cgipaf/

    The 'pw' command can change passwords (among many other things) and it does
    not need a pty, eg..
    echo newpassword | pw usermod foobar -h 0

    In a CGI you would open a pipe to pw and feed it the password. 

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Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
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