POP3 password changer.
2007-12-25 9:35:00
to those whose replies are still en route. The replies are reproduced
below.
The original question was how to let POP3 users, with no login shell on
the mail hub, change their own passwords.
The replies fell into two groups:
1. Use "poppasswd".
2. Make "/bin/passwd" their login shell.
Number 2 is the clear winner, as it requires far less time to implement,
and will (I hope) be easier for the Unix-shy users to get accustomed to.
Daniel Baker was the first to suggest using "/bin/passwd", and he also
suggested telling users to point a web browser at "telnet://mailhost" or
the like when they want to change their e-mail passwords.
thanks again to all
-fp
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From: Parthiv Shah <parthiv@CORP.IDT.NET>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 12:54:33 -0500 (EST)
Install poppasswd
and than install the web interface for it..
so that users can just goto a given url and than change there password
only sad part about this is the password goes cleartext over your network.
If you want poppasswd url I can give it to you, but I am sure you can
netsearch it and find it..
Parthiv
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Systems Administrator at IDT parthiv@netadmin.net
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From: Daniel Baker <dbaker@hobbes.cuckoo.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 12:18:56 -0600 (CST)
Why not change their shell to be /bin/passwd
Then, you send them an email saying that they need to change their
passwords and a hyperlink to:
telnet://yourhost.someplace.com
Then they can login and change it without having access to the machine...
Daniel
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Daniel Baker (dbaker@cuckoo.com)
Chief Technology Officer -- CuckooNet! (http://www.cuckoo.com)
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From: "Clarkson, Michael" <clarkson@amgen.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 10:25:48 -0800
Hi,
You need to get poppasswd this will let your pop users change their
passwords, I think you can also get a windows version.
Michael Clarkson
Unix Systems Admin
AMGEN Ltd
Cambridge UK
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From: Troy Wollenslegel <troy@intranet.org>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 97 13:40:16 EST
Can they do it via the web? I have had servers set up (running apache
web server) to allow the users to change their psswordspasswords. I
suppose you could also change thier shells to /bin/passwd instead of
/bin/false (if they can't log in)
Troy
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My life has a superb cast, but I can't figure out the plot.
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Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 11:41:55 -0700
From: Michael Blandford <mikey@lanl.gov>
Change their login shell to be /bin/passwd.
Mikey
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From: Paul Hubbard <paul@nbengal.cc.oxy.edu>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 10:58:51 -0800 (PST)
The server on the qualcomm ftp site will do that. We use it here. It
is running on the port that eudora wants it on (106 I think). It is
not very user-friendly, but you should be able to fix that and have the
users connect to a port and be prompted for the info.
We are running it on a Solaris 2.4 system.
-Paul Hubbard
Occidental College
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Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 11:15:50 -0800
From: Dave <dburwell@telecom.com>
Check out the Qualcomm ftp site. They have several examples of a POP3
password interface. Some a precompiled. I used the source code, and with
minor changes, it is working fine on a SunOS 4.1.4 POP3 server. I used
yppasswd instead of passwd that it originally used.
I use this with Eudora, and it seems to work OK.
ftp://ftp.qualcomm.com/quest/unix/servers/password/
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Frank Pardo <fpardo@tisny.com>
Transaction Information Systems
New York City
The scholar's ink outlasts the martyr's blood. -- Irish proverb
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