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Re: Allowing users to change passwords through apache

From: Tom <tpanning_at_vt.edu>
Date: 2004-04-06 04:00:27 CEST

On Monday 05 April 2004 9:22 pm, Branko Čibej wrote:
> Tom wrote:
> >There is no need to give repository users shell accounts on the repository
> >machine, and giving them shell accounts causes extra administration work,
> > so I'd like to avoid it if it's not too difficult. I have everything
> > setup to run through apache2, and it works well. My only problem is that
> > users can't change their passwords.
> >
> >I'm sure that there's a simple solution, but I haven't been able to find
> > one in the subversion archives or on apache's site. If anyone could point
> > me in the right direction, I'd appreciate it.
>
> A simple CGI script would do it. This is essentially Apache
> functionality, and I don't know if Apache provides anything like that.

Yeah, I figured a CGI script could do it, but this seems like a common enough
problem that someone else must've solved it before. And a solution created by
someone else (and used by many other people) is likely to be more secure and
robust than something I could hack up in an evening.

If anyone knows of such a thing, I'd really like to hear about it. If all else
fails, I found http://search.cpan.org/dist/Apache-Htpasswd/Htpasswd.pm, which
seems like it would make a writing a script fairly idiot-proof.
Tom

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