Author: Steve Kemp Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Changing user passwords without shell access
On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 05:30:14PM +0000, Adrian Bridgett wrote: > On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 10:40:17 +0000 (+0000), Steve Kemp wrote:
> > In the past I admin'd a machine setup with a shell script which
> > could be simplified to this for each user:
>
> The problem with that approach would be that any shell script can
> normally be broken out of with fast enough Ctrl-C :-)
>
Sure that is an option; but if that happens the user will be
logged out - since the shell script is their login shell...
> I think I'd be inclined to go with the web interface myself.
Do let us know which one you end up going for if you find a good
solution.
