Passwords

[Artur Shnayder]

Quoting mgamito at ua.pt:

> Hi!
> 
> I made a C script to work with an html form to allow my users to change
> their 
> passwords.
> 
> Since they use ftp and samba, i've tried to execute smbpasswd and with 
> password sync in smb.conf it should work well.
> 
> The problem is that smbpasswd must have setuid set and it doesn't run
> like 
> this.

 Take a look at sudo application "http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/" . You can run 
it from cgi script with root permissions and with no password. Just use 
something like this

web  Hostname=NOPASSWD: "YOUR APPLICATION"

in the sudo configuration file.

> 
> Any ideas to turn this around?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Mário Gamito
> pt is for Portugal
> 



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