My opologies, i am not rather familiar with APOP, so I shouldnt have claim
the answers.
I tried :)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Alex M" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Subscribers of Qpopper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 11:17 PM
Subject: Re: CGI/poppassd - anyone got?
> Quoting Alex M ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > It is obvious that qpopper uses system accounts, so basically to change
the
> > password, would it be POP, APOP, FTP and etc, you would have to change
the
> > whole user's system password...
>
> It WOULD be obvious that yes, system usernames ARE used.
> However, APOP (specifically mentioned) cannot use a crypted passwd
> (per the system) and must use a shared token. Thus the use of
> popauth(8) to manage the APOP "passwords".
>
> So for password pop, ftp and other system accounts, I'd use
> native auth (or LDAP). APOP cannot use this. So I'll wait
> for the next reply, thanks.
>
> > A CGI script called BRINK is able to do
>
> I'd found this on freshmeat/google previously (and others). Thanks tho.
>
> > that, but i was unsuccessful in getting this script to work correctly
under
> > FreeBSD, it messed up the passwords instead of changing them.
> > Brink's homepage is http://www.brink.cx
> >
> > Hope this helps.
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Chuck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "Subscribers of Qpopper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 9:05 PM
> > Subject: CGI/poppassd - anyone got?
> >
> >
> > > I'm using APOP. I would love to know if someone has a CGI
> > > script that will let people change their APOP passwords via
> > > web. Anyone want to share?
> > >
> > > TIA,
> > >
> > > chuck
> > >
>
