WEB base "passwd username" command concept

[Cem Tugrul]

Hello,
i have a UX server and 500 users.The clients
use this server BaaN erp which is intalled
client GUI on their PC.Every user have a login
name that i have created on my UNIX srv(of course) and i have given a password.
The pwds have no aging i mean when i created
an account and gave pwd then they all use it
because they do not use telnet to change
pwds.Now i want to organize for my users
to change their pwd via using a WEB browser.
For ex;let's say my UX srv ip 10.x.y.z
then from the their PCs using IE or Netscape
just writing the ip address like
http://ip_ad_of_my srv/
so they can change their own pwd via WEB...
For this purpose to realise what do i need?
or How can i do it?

Greetings,

[SHAJITH_2]

Hi

You can Install webmin ( webbased admin tool) to do this.


Regards,

Shajith

[Rainer von Bongartz]

1) Create an html form for your users to enter account, old and new password

2) from the POST action of this form call a cgi script which is using the 'expect' software to check password syntax etc and perform the password change


expect is downloadable from:

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Tcl/expect-5.42/

Regards
Rainer

[Cem Tugrul]

Hi,

i have downloaded expect and installed onto my srv.
Now ,next???
Could you try to give a brief detail?
Grts,

[Alex Lavrov.]

Now I guess you must learn to use expect:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/Tcl_Dev_Kit/3.1/expect/expect.1.html

I also suggest you to install SSL and use secure connection, because now you have passwords going over the network plain text ...

[Cem Tugrul]

Hi,
i have installed it onto my test_srv...
so Could you please help me to setup it
step by step?????

Points are still waiting :-)

[Rainer von Bongartz]

Take a look at the expect home page:

http://expect.nist.gov/

You'll find very good examples of using expect.


Regards
Rainer

[Emil Velez]

Have you considered LDAP UX.. With LDAP your users can have the same userid and password whether they use PCs, HPUX logins or Web Pages (most web servers can use LDAP for page and application passwords.

The HPUX system will still need a limited number of local userids and passwords but this may allow the users to change their passwords at the windows level and the passwords are changed everywhere.

[Cem Tugrul]

To Emil,
i have not considered LDAP...
Just want my users to change their pwd
as using IE or Netscape when the pwd changing
time comes.That's all i want!

[Cem Tugrul]

found a different solution...