changing unix password via www python script

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 06:04:36PM +1100, Andrew MacIntyre wrote:
>On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Vesemir wrote:
>> How to change unix account password by python script?
>> I want to write www script, controled by form.
>
>Its clumsy and trouble prone, but what I did was use one of the expect
>modules (PyExpect?- can't remember for sure), and telnetted to localhost

It depends on what platform, but on Linux you can simply feed the data
to "passwd --stdin username".  At one point (before the --stdin patch
was available) I hacked the source code to "passwd" so that I could
do something like: "echo user:oldpass:newpass | pwweb" and it would do
all the appropriate checking and return a success or failure string.

Sean
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