Re: /bin/passwd as shell

2002-01-28 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Moses Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.24.2128 +0100]: > I found something that claims to do this. > http://www.geocities.com/beradrian/soft/soft.html#cgipasswd > > It claims to use PAM, and it should only be used over https for reasons > that should be obvious. it doesn't do md5, a

Re: /bin/passwd as shell

2002-01-28 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Ralf Dreibrodt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.24.1905 +0100]: > and then no user, who has a valid shell has to enter the old password > from user x, when he wants to change the password of user x. > perhaps even if x=root ;-) /bin/passwd does not allow the specification of a username, un

Re: /bin/passwd as shell

2002-01-28 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Moses Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.24.2128 +0100]: > I found something that claims to do this. > http://www.geocities.com/beradrian/soft/soft.html#cgipasswd > > It claims to use PAM, and it should only be used over https for reasons > that should be obvious. it doesn't do md5,

Re: /bin/passwd as shell

2002-01-28 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Ralf Dreibrodt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.24.1905 +0100]: > and then no user, who has a valid shell has to enter the old password > from user x, when he wants to change the password of user x. > perhaps even if x=root ;-) /bin/passwd does not allow the specification of a username, u

Re: /bin/passwd as shell

2002-01-24 Thread Moses Moore
martin f krafft wrote: > that was me, and no, noone has mentioned any bad aspects yet, other than your > users having to type the old password twice. however, it's not the > solution i amlooking for, so i am implementing a highly secure way to do it > over and > SSL/TLS-encrypted webform with emph

Re: [d-security] Re: /bin/passwd as shell

2002-01-24 Thread Christian Hammers
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 07:05:54PM +0100, Ralf Dreibrodt wrote: > and then no user, who has a valid shell has to enter the old password > from user x, when he wants to change the password of user x. > perhaps even if x=root ;-) You have to enter it once for the ssh daemon anyways. He just wanted to

Re: /bin/passwd as shell

2002-01-24 Thread Moses Moore
martin f krafft wrote: > that was me, and no, noone has mentioned any bad aspects yet, other than your > users having to type the old password twice. however, it's not the > solution i amlooking for, so i am implementing a highly secure way to do it over and > SSL/TLS-encrypted webform with emphas

Re: /bin/passwd as shell

2002-01-24 Thread Ralf Dreibrodt
Hi, David N Moore wrote: > > i'm a new poster here, but one thing that strikes me is that the > source to passwd should be hanging around somewhere. It wouldn't be > incredibly difficult to make a custom version which does not ask for > the original password, right? Then you could set it to be

Re: /bin/passwd as shell

2002-01-24 Thread David N Moore
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 11:17:59AM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: > On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 07:23:35AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > > > > > > also sprach Rob VanFleet > > > On this list (I beleive) I saw someone mention the use of /bin/passwd > > > as a shell for mail-only users so they can easily

Re: /bin/passwd as shell

2002-01-24 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 07:23:35AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > > > also sprach Rob VanFleet > > On this list (I beleive) I saw someone mention the use of /bin/passwd > > as a shell for mail-only users so they can easily change their password > > without having to ask someone. Is this a secur

Re: [d-security] Re: /bin/passwd as shell

2002-01-24 Thread Christian Hammers
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 07:05:54PM +0100, Ralf Dreibrodt wrote: > and then no user, who has a valid shell has to enter the old password > from user x, when he wants to change the password of user x. > perhaps even if x=root ;-) You have to enter it once for the ssh daemon anyways. He just wanted t

Re: /bin/passwd as shell

2002-01-24 Thread Ralf Dreibrodt
Hi, David N Moore wrote: > > i'm a new poster here, but one thing that strikes me is that the > source to passwd should be hanging around somewhere. It wouldn't be > incredibly difficult to make a custom version which does not ask for > the original password, right? Then you could set it to be

Re: /bin/passwd as shell

2002-01-24 Thread David N Moore
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 11:17:59AM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: > On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 07:23:35AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > > > > > > also sprach Rob VanFleet > > > On this list (I beleive) I saw someone mention the use of /bin/passwd > > > as a shell for mail-only users so they can easil

Re: /bin/passwd as shell

2002-01-24 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 07:23:35AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > > > also sprach Rob VanFleet > > On this list (I beleive) I saw someone mention the use of /bin/passwd > > as a shell for mail-only users so they can easily change their password > > without having to ask someone. Is this a secu

Re: /bin/passwd as shell

2002-01-24 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Rob VanFleet > On this list (I beleive) I saw someone mention the use of /bin/passwd > as a shell for mail-only users so they can easily change their password > without having to ask someone. Is this a secure option, or am I > missing some glaring problems? If so, what are some othe

/bin/passwd as shell

2002-01-23 Thread Rob VanFleet
On this list (I beleive) I saw someone mention the use of /bin/passwd as a shell for mail-only users so they can easily change their password without having to ask someone. Is this a secure option, or am I missing some glaring problems? If so, what are some other possible solutions? Thanks, Rob

Re: /bin/passwd as shell

2002-01-23 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Rob VanFleet > On this list (I beleive) I saw someone mention the use of /bin/passwd > as a shell for mail-only users so they can easily change their password > without having to ask someone. Is this a secure option, or am I > missing some glaring problems? If so, what are som

/bin/passwd as shell

2002-01-23 Thread Rob VanFleet
On this list (I beleive) I saw someone mention the use of /bin/passwd as a shell for mail-only users so they can easily change their password without having to ask someone. Is this a secure option, or am I missing some glaring problems? If so, what are some other possible solutions? Thanks, Rob