On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 23:57 +0200, Johannes H. Jensen wrote: > Dear almighty GNOME hackers, I'm in need of some pointers! > > I'm currently hacking on the about-me password dialog (see #321567), > which is spawning /usr/bin/passwd to authenticate and change the > password. In the new dialog, I'm dividing the process in two, so that > the user has to authenticate with his current password first (which > spawns passwd to verify). If passwd doesn't complain and prompts for > the new password, he can enter his new password, retype it and hit > "Change password". When he hits the button, some time has elapsed > since he first authenticated (and thus passwd was spawned).
Maybe its just me, but you probably want to actually do a proper pam conversation here rather than calling /usr/bin/passwd. The gnome-password submission novell made ages ago had this, and we have an updated version shipping with more support. -JP -- JP Rosevear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Novell, Inc. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
