[Tickets #2550] NEW: Support for /bin/passwd being login shell

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Ticket URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/?id=2550
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 Ticket             | 2550
 Created By         | lmamane at debian.org
 Summary            | Support for /bin/passwd being login shell
 Queue              | Passwd
 Version            | 3.0-BETA
 State              | New
 Priority           | 1. Low
 Type               | Enhancement
 Owners             | 
+New Attachment     | passwd-h3_passwd-shell.patch
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lmamane at debian.org (2005-09-03 07:25) wrote:

Some admins use the following hack in order not to give shell access to
mail-only users, but still give them a venue for changing their password
securely (through ssh): They just set the login shell to /bin/passwd . In
this way the user can "ssh in" and gets dumped into the password changing
application immediately, and can do nothing else with his "ssh account".
Crude, but works well.

This patch adds support for this situation to the passwd expect script. It
is forward-ported from my patch to passwd version 2.2.1 and I can't formally
test it as I don't have a working Horde3 install yet, but the code looks
similar enough that I'm confident it will work as well.