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

[Jarungwit BOONPERM]

Hi Dave,
   You can get an updated "poppasswd-2.tar.gz" at below.

http://www.search.com/search?channel=3&q=pop%20passwd&tag=st.dl.sr.also.web
		 regards,
		Jarungwit.

On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Dave Wilson wrote:

> Hi Rich,
> 
> I thought of that too, but where do I get an updated passwd that supports
> shadow ?
> And can I get it in source form and remove all the veboseness from it ?
> Thanks for your help so far, much appreciated. ;-)
> 
> 
> Kindest regards
> David Wilson
> The S.A Internet
> 
> 
> 
> 
> #include <std-disclaimer.h>
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rich Lafferty [mailto:rich@bofh.concordia.ca]On Behalf Of Rich
> Lafferty
> Sent: 19 January 2001 08:43
> To: imp@lists.horde.org
> Subject: Re: [imp] poppassd and IMP problems<<< please help ! ;-)
> 
> 
> 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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