can the user override this by re aliasing passwd to point to
/usr/bin/passwd in the .bashrc or .cshrc etc. ?
-kg
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Siva Subramanian wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> this should work.
>
> edit /etc/profile and add these lines.
>
> passwd()
> {
> if["$USER"="u2"]; then
> echo "Access Denied"
> else
> /usr/bin/passwd
> fi
> }
>
> Regards,
> Siva.
>
> PS : I had posted this earlier, but then I guess this
> did not hit the list. if it did, pls do ignore it.
> --- Dhruv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > That's also seems to be a viable option for me at
> > this
> > > moment. Let's see what dr. Laha has to say.
> > >
> >
> > i concour with the approach to set user password day
> > change min , max
> > method, by far the easiest,
> >
> > That being said -- we can always have a perl script
> > that sits as passwd and
> > it does a check to see if $ENV{USER} is u2 or not :)
> > As earlier passwd is
> > moved to another location which is another exercise
> > in security because of
> > obscurity and something im never proud of doing.
> >
> > TIMTOWTDI
> >
> > Dhruv
> >
> >
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