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From: david@terra.igcom.net (David B. Bauman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Password Change w/o telnet
Date: 7 Mar 1996 18:29:34 GMT
Organization: InterGlobal Communications
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Russel J. Witte (rjwitte@rjwitte.com) wrote:
: Hi,

:   Does anyone know how we can change passwords from a WWW screen or
: any other way to log in and ONLY change the password. 

Setup a nice perl script that will confirm an old password and prompt for 
a new one.  However, I wouldnt recommend using any type of passwd script 
that will be world readable.


David Bauman

: Thanks,

: Russ --  Rjwitte@rjwitte.com


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