[KLUG Members] Changing email password.

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> >Do you mean the password they check their mail with? Like their POP3 or
> >MAP password? Or do you mean a password for authenticating to your
> >outgoing (sendmail) mail server? There's got to be some way to let users
> >do it because ISP's let their users do it all the time.
> I use POP3. Every time, I connect to my email server, using telnet, and, as
> root, I change the user´s password with the command passwd <user>.
> > I could be very, very wrong about this, but you MIGHT be able to write a
> > little PHP script (or perl) to handle this for you. A quick look at
> > php.net yielded the "escapeshellarg()" and "escapeshellcmd()" functions
> Ok, I´ll try do program anything in PHP. You know, I like programming very
> much. :)))))

There are quite a few such passwd wrapper pages,  I'd take a look around
freshmeat.net.

http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpass/ is one.