[imp] poppassd and IMP problems<<< please help ! ;-)

[Rich Lafferty]

On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 08:26:49AM +0200, Dave Wilson (davew@sai.co.za) wrote:
> Hi Chuck,
> 
> As I have said poppassd does change the password 100%, so my IMP password
> change feature is working... it's just a bit annoying having it say
> "following error has occurred" ;-)
> I have tried to modified & recompiled poppassd.c, but I cannot get it to
> ignore all the garbage before the "New password:" prompt.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas ?

Poppassd is a messy hack; there isn't even a standard, it's just
something Qualcomm did that caught on, IIRC. I think you're trying to
fix it in the more difficult of two straightforward ways, though --
you'd be better off building a second 'passwd' that isn't so verbose
and telling poppassd to use that. (Poppassd just talks to passwd(8)
through a bidirectional pipe.) Put the modified passwd in
/usr/local/sbin or the equivalent "commands not for mortals"
directory, make it setuid root and only executable by root (and thus
poppassd via inetd), and Bob's your uncle.

  -Rich

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