hi all,
Thanks, But I want the users to be able to change
password through the browers as they are all working
on win95 systems.
--- Binand Raj S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ajay chaudhari forced the electrons to say:
> > Hi all,
> > I am useing redhat linux 6.2 as a proxy server,
> I am
> > useing NCSA_AUTH program for authencation, I have
> > created a password file useing httpwd program.
> > Now the users want to change their password.
>
> Assuming we are talking about squid, I can suggest
> two ways:
>
> 1. Run a cron job every five minutes or so, that
> will generate the
> password file for ncsa_auth from /etc/passwd. This
> might not be as easy
> as it sounds, since ncsa_auth needs simple Unix
> crypt(3)ed passwords -
> and RHL 6.2 uses MD5 passwords. Also, there are
> locking and security
> issues in this.
>
> 2. Upgrade squid to the latest 2.3-STABLE. Use the
> pam_auth auth module
> distributed with it, instead of ncsa_auth. Write a
> /etc/pam.d/squid file
> (usually, just copying over one the existing ones
> like ftp or imap will
> do) and use PAM to authenticate users for squid.
> Then the users can
> change password from the bash command line, and
> squid will immediately
> get to know of it.
>
> If you have problems upgrading squid, let me know
> (on the list,
> of course).
>
> Binand
>
>
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Ajay Chaudhari
Mumbai
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