Detaching program from controlling terminal

[Mark Frank]

* On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 01:44:25PM +0800 Ihsan Junaidi Ibrahim wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm somehow stuck in the loop now and am hoping some of you can give me 
> pointers on how to proceed. Due to a customer requirement, I need to 
> build a simple web-based (via cgi or php) script to change the system 
> password. They found that sshing to the server and typing passwd to 
> change the password is wee too involving hence the need to use a much 
> friendlier interface. Letting the sysadmins change the user's password 
> is not a good idea, as the sysadmins are outsourced and the users value 
> their privacy. 

I'm sure I'm preaching to the choir here but what privacy do they think
they are protecting since the sysadmins have root already?

-- 
Mark Frank
"The fix is only temporary...unless it works." - Red Green