Disillusioned with PAM

[Daniel O'Connor]

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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