Allowing users to change passwords through apache

[Tom <tp...@vt.edu>]

There is no need to give repository users shell accounts on the repository 
machine, and giving them shell accounts causes extra administration work, so 
I'd like to avoid it if it's not too difficult. I have everything setup to 
run through apache2, and it works well. My only problem is that users can't 
change their passwords.

I'm sure that there's a simple solution, but I haven't been able to find one 
in the subversion archives or on apache's site. If anyone could point me in 
the right direction, I'd appreciate it.

Thanks,
Tom

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Re: Allowing users to change passwords through apache

[Tom <tp...@vt.edu>]

On Monday 05 April 2004 10:27 pm, Tom wrote:
> On Monday 05 April 2004 10:09 pm, Boris wrote:
> > > If anyone knows of such a thing, I'd really like to hear about it. If
> > > all else
> > > fails, I found http://search.cpan.org/dist/Apache-Htpasswd/Htpasswd.pm,
> > > which
> > > seems like it would make a writing a script fairly idiot-proof.
> > > Tom
> >
> > On the perl monks website there is an excellent example of how to use the
> > Apache::Htpasswd module.
> > http://perlmonks.thepen.com/178482.html
> >
> > - Boris
>
> Thanks, that led me to http://stein.cshl.org/~lstein/user_manage/, which
> seems to be exactly what I was after.
>
> Thanks again,
> Tom

Just thought I'd let everyone know (particularly people searching through the 
archives) that I setup the software at that link, and it works great. It was 
very simple to setup, and does exactly what I wanted (plus, it gives me an 
easy way to manage users).

Tom

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Re: Allowing users to change passwords through apache

[Tom <tp...@vt.edu>]

On Monday 05 April 2004 10:09 pm, Boris wrote:
> > If anyone knows of such a thing, I'd really like to hear about it. If all
> > else
> > fails, I found http://search.cpan.org/dist/Apache-Htpasswd/Htpasswd.pm,
> > which
> > seems like it would make a writing a script fairly idiot-proof.
> > Tom
>
> On the perl monks website there is an excellent example of how to use the
> Apache::Htpasswd module.
> http://perlmonks.thepen.com/178482.html
>
> - Boris

Thanks, that led me to http://stein.cshl.org/~lstein/user_manage/, which seems 
to be exactly what I was after.

Thanks again,
Tom

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RE: Allowing users to change passwords through apache

[Boris <bo...@kafana.org>]

> If anyone knows of such a thing, I'd really like to hear about it. If all
> else
> fails, I found http://search.cpan.org/dist/Apache-Htpasswd/Htpasswd.pm,
> which
> seems like it would make a writing a script fairly idiot-proof.
> Tom

On the perl monks website there is an excellent example of how to use the
Apache::Htpasswd module.
http://perlmonks.thepen.com/178482.html

- Boris


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Re: Allowing users to change passwords through apache

[Tom <tp...@vt.edu>]

On Monday 05 April 2004 9:22 pm, Branko Čibej wrote:
> Tom wrote:
> >There is no need to give repository users shell accounts on the repository
> >machine, and giving them shell accounts causes extra administration work,
> > so I'd like to avoid it if it's not too difficult. I have everything
> > setup to run through apache2, and it works well. My only problem is that
> > users can't change their passwords.
> >
> >I'm sure that there's a simple solution, but I haven't been able to find
> > one in the subversion archives or on apache's site. If anyone could point
> > me in the right direction, I'd appreciate it.
>
> A simple CGI script would do it. This is essentially Apache
> functionality, and I don't know if Apache provides anything like that.

Yeah, I figured a CGI script could do it, but this seems like a common enough 
problem that someone else must've solved it before. And a solution created by 
someone else (and used by many other people) is likely to be more secure and 
robust than something I could hack up in an evening.

If anyone knows of such a thing, I'd really like to hear about it. If all else 
fails, I found http://search.cpan.org/dist/Apache-Htpasswd/Htpasswd.pm, which 
seems like it would make a writing a script fairly idiot-proof.
Tom

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Re: Allowing users to change passwords through apache

[Branko Čibej <br...@xbc.nu>]

Tom wrote:

>There is no need to give repository users shell accounts on the repository 
>machine, and giving them shell accounts causes extra administration work, so 
>I'd like to avoid it if it's not too difficult. I have everything setup to 
>run through apache2, and it works well. My only problem is that users can't 
>change their passwords.
>
>I'm sure that there's a simple solution, but I haven't been able to find one 
>in the subversion archives or on apache's site. If anyone could point me in 
>the right direction, I'd appreciate it.
>  
>
A simple CGI script would do it. This is essentially Apache
functionality, and I don't know if Apache provides anything like that.


-- 
Brane Čibej   <br...@xbc.nu>   http://www.xbc.nu/brane/

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