Re: Validating passwords via perl, Lil help please!

["Jake McHenry" <jmchenry oak kcsd k12 pa us>]

That would help out a lot, maybe then I could either use the php code, or
somehow use that in my cgi script.

Thanks,
Jake

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Kiem" <zordah zordah net>
To: <redhat-list redhat com>
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 10:55 PM
Subject: Re: Validating passwords via perl, Lil help please!


> Hi Jake,
>
> > That is basically what I have now to see if the user exists, but I can't
use
> > this because I'm using shadow passwords, the only thing that is in
position
> > 2 of /etc/passwd is x. So, anyone know of any other ways that I can
achieve
> > this? Thanks for the help though.
>
> I did this by installing the poppassd daemon and then writing a PHP class
to
> call poppassd with the username, old password and new password and
poppassd
> did all the work for me :)
>
> I guess you could write something similar in Perl.  If you want the PHP
> source code then let me know.
>
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