This sounds not security-related, sounds more cracker-related . . . Take care, somebody might watch over your shoulders ! Cheers. Tino. Am Mit, 2002-11-06 um 20.29 schrieb jeff: > Haresh Motwani wrote: > > >Actually, I need to edit /etc/passwd file thru a gui. The user will be > >asked to enter his username and current pwd along with the new pwd. On > >submit the script will validate the current pwd and then change it. For > >this I need to run a script which will be able to edit my /etc/passwd file. > >Obviously in this case the script would be running as user. > > > > > > > >> > >>On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 12:49:43PM +0530, Haresh Motwani wrote: > >> > >> > >>>I need to read and edit /etc/passwd file thru a script which is running as > >>>a user. > >>> > >>>Can suEXEC do it? is there any other way of doing it. > >>> > >>> > >>> > > Hi, > I am not usre what dist you are using, but on my RH box I have 2 gui > password programs, userhelper and tkpasswd. > > Hope that helps, > Jeff > > > > -- Attached file included as plaintext by Ecartis -- > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org > > iD8DBQE9yW2b8Ub+t0iGyLARAqzbAKCVRlaphWm7gtQe+q5ASFJuiWLV5QCgyl4L > ogTt0wm/n/mlmAXFLK2HoDo= > =dldc > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > To unsubscribe email security-discuss-request@linuxsecurity.com > with "unsubscribe" in the subject of the message. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe email security-discuss-request@linuxsecurity.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject of the message.
