[PATCH #6] AIX password expiration

Ben Lindstrom mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org
Tue Oct 29 00:57:03 EST 2002


I was debating the same thing.

Forking off a connection to /usr/bin/passwd and writing a C script to
automate changing password.  I just think it will be a pain.

- Ben

On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Markus Friedl wrote:

> i don't think there is a portable way for setting
> passwords, so making sure /usr/bin/passwd is executed
> (no shells involved) and disallowing all other
> channels is the only portable thing we could do.
>
> -m
>




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