Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Changing passwords?
From: Edan Idzerda (edan@mtu.edu)
Date: Tue Oct 07 1997 - 11:56:31 EDT
> Or, failing that, of any way to change passwords that doesn't require a
> telnet login?
>
> I know about popassd but haven't found a current version since it no longer
> seems to be on the Qualcomm website where it used to be and the version at
> Northwestern (circa 1993) won't compile on SPARC Linux, though I confess
> that I haven't played around with it that much. Is there a newer one?
I got a version of poppassd off the Qualcomm FTP site. The Eudora README
had the location wrong.
ftp.qualcomm.com/eudora/servers/unix/password
I'm currently testing/using the poppasswd that was in the solaris-2.tar
file. There are a number of other files in there that all seem to
do approximately the same thing... your mileage may vary.
Sure, there are security concerns, like, "Now someone can just snoop that
port and grab new passwords!" But, *sigh*, someone can just snoop the
POP3 port and grab passwords, so... *sigh*
The above program from solaris-2.tar works pretty well for me,
compiled on a SPARC 4 running Solaris 2.5.
- edan
-- Edan Idzerda <edan@mtu.edu> System Administrator -- Michigan Technological University, Houghton MI USA
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