changing passwords for NIS clients...

2003-08-14 Thread Steve Strong
...does this mean people at the client machines need to use both passwd and yppasswd to change their passwords? And will that allow people to login with their new password and still access their home directory information? steve -- Steve Strong Math/Computer Science Teacher Washington High School

Re: changing passwords for NIS clients...

2003-08-14 Thread Keith Morse
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Steve Strong wrote: > ...does this mean people at the client machines need to use both passwd > and yppasswd to change their passwords? And will that allow people to > login with their new password and still access their home directory > information? > steve AFAIK, ypasswd

Re: Changing passwords

2002-10-13 Thread Tom Pollerman
On Fri, 11 Oct 2002 19:38:52 -0600 "Ashley M. Kirchner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Most of the users on our network simply use it for checking > email, and > hosting their websites. Most of them don't know how to log in > through SSH should they need to. Consequently if and when th

Changing passwords

2002-10-13 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Most of the users on our network simply use it for checking email, and hosting their websites. Most of them don't know how to log in through SSH should they need to. Consequently if and when their password expires, they don't know what to do, or where to go to get it reset. And them pickin

Re: Changing passwords

2002-10-12 Thread Martín Marqués
There are some PHP apps for changing passwords, one at www.horde.org, but don't know how secure they are, and if you are not using horde it's a bit uncomfortable, cause you have to install all the horde framework to get this small app working. On Vie 11 Oct 2002 22:38, Ashley M

Re: Users changing passwords...

2002-05-24 Thread Monte Milanuk
On Fri, 24 May 2002 10:43:50 -0600 "Ashley M. Kirchner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Javier Gostling wrote: > > > How about a web interface? It could use a perl script to interact > > with the passwd program, or directly modify /etc/passwd. > > That would work, sure. But before I reinvent

Re: Users changing passwords...

2002-05-24 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Javier Gostling wrote: > How about a web interface? It could use a perl script to interact with > the passwd program, or directly modify /etc/passwd. That would work, sure. But before I reinvent the wheel, I thought I'd ask first if anyone already has such mechanism, or know of any that ar

Re: Users changing passwords...

2002-05-24 Thread Javier Gostling
"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 c

Users changing passwords...

2002-05-23 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
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 t

Changing passwords via PERL and CGI's

2001-03-16 Thread Joshua Hirsh
Hey Folks, Anyone have any idea how to change the MD5 based passwords via a PERL script or CGI? I've tried out the Authen-PAM module from CPAN (version 0.11), but it doesn't quite work on my Red Hat 7 system. I need to be able to verify passwords and change them via a CGI interface and any k