Mail question

[Alexander Bogdanov]

Hello.
I can describe my problem: server will be located in school (school
web server). And i'd like to create mail accounts for pupils and
teachers, there's no problem. But...i'd like user to change his
password by himself, he is just user, and don't have shell account in
this server, only mail!

Maybe, i should write any PHP script to change /etc/passwd ?
On 16 Sep 2005 08:55:09 -0400, Lowell Gilbert
<freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org> wrote:
> Chris Petrovitch <cpetrovi at purdue.edu> writes:
> 
> > Alexander Bogdanov wrote:
> >
> > >Hello.
> > >I'm student from Latvia. I'd like to ask you a question about Postfix
> > >mail system under FreeBSD.
> > >I have such problem: target is to allow user to change his mail
> > >account's password by himself. For example, I set password for his
> > >account, and maybe, user doesn't want me to know this password, so
> > >he'd like to change it!
> > > The question is: HOW? I'm looking forward to hearing from you.
> > >
> >
> > I'm in the same situation....  I used /etc/passwd for people with
> > shell accounts, and /usr/local/etc/userdb (courier-imap) for virtual
> > accounts..
> >
> > any insight on this would be great!
> 
> Note that in neither case does the password have anything directly to
> do with Postfix.  For shell accounts, passwd(1) is the standard
> answer, and there are add-on services (e.g., mail/poppassd).  For
> Courier databases, you may need something specific to Courier; is
> security/courierpassd relevant?
> 
> --
> Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
>                 http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/
> 


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Best regards,
Alexander Bogdanov (GSM: +3716100890).