Re: [LIP] passwd wrapper

Godbole, Amarendra (GE Consumer & Industrial) wrote:
>>Why cant you simply ask the user for his password, and set it in the 
>>system using "passwd --stdin username" (using sudo 
>>permissions given to 
>>your script or somethign similar)?
> 
> 
> I have to support this on Linux as well as AIX. --stdin is only available
> with Linux. :(
> 

So you need a "cross-platform" password modification utility.Obviously, 
you need to also have the same program work with /etc/passwd and 
/etc/shadow too, and with Crypt and MD5 based passwords too!
Bless you.   :)

I dont see any way out rather than writing a suid perl script which 
works out these differences, and either edit these files directly ( 
managing locks etc. Yeesh) which should not be very difficult in perl or 
use the platform specific tools (passwd --stdin in case of linux, etc.).

- Sandip


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