Detaching program from controlling terminal

Ihsan Junaidi Ibrahim ihsan at synthexp.net
Tue Jun 15 14:13:03 PDT 2004


Volker Kindermann wrote:
  > what about giving them /usr/bin/passwd as the shell? So, the only thing
> they have to do is ssh to the system and they're asked for the password.
> 
> Haven't tried this on FreeBSD yet, but it should work.
>
Did a cursory testing just now and they seem to work. I'm going to 
conduct further testing on it later during the day.

Should be a decent stop-gap measure.

Definitely it didn't cross my mind. Thanks.



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