Password Change Machine

2000-10-16 Thread Daniel Whelan
I'm currently configuring a machine to be the master password machine for a large network of machines. Is there a way to configure it to allow only root to get an actual console, and to have all other users redirected to a password change program? Thanks, Daniel

Re: Password Change Machine

2000-10-16 Thread Jeremy Gaddis
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Daniel Whelan wrote: I'm currently configuring a machine to be the master password machine for a large network of machines. Is there a way to configure it to allow only root to get an actual console, and to have all other users redirected to a password change program?

Re: Password Change Machine

2000-10-16 Thread Daniel Whelan
Jeremy Gaddis wrote: On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Daniel Whelan wrote: I'm currently configuring a machine to be the master password machine for a large network of machines. Is there a way to configure it to allow only root to get an actual console, and to have all other users redirected to a

Re: Password Change Machine

2000-10-16 Thread Jeremy Gaddis
Set root's shell to whichever you prefer, and set the regular user's shell to /usr/bin/passwd. Yeah...I thought of this at first, but I need a solution that doesn't mess with the passwd file at all, as the passwd file is distributed to other machines on a regular basis, and the users

Re: Password Change Machine

2000-10-16 Thread Damian Menscher
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Jeremy Gaddis wrote: Set root's shell to whichever you prefer, and set the regular user's shell to /usr/bin/passwd. Yeah...I thought of this at first, but I need a solution that doesn't mess with the passwd file at all, as the passwd file is distributed to

Re: Password Change Machine

2000-10-16 Thread Brian May
Damian == Damian Menscher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Damian My suggestion follows: One possibility is to take Damian advantage of NIS. On the server machine you have a second Or openldap. Although, LDAP is (IMHO) currently harder to configure, especially if you not use to LDAP. However,