Topic: Password changes

[mark]

I would like to allow the ability to have password changes remotely.  I know that access can be granted to other networks, but that doesn't work well with a dial up internet account with dynamic IP.  Any suggestions?

[Michael Regan]

I certainly wouldn't do it, but you could use e-mail to change the password. Use procmail to trigger a script that extracts the users name and the new password from the e-mail message then updates the password file.

A better solution would be to have the modem answer incoming calls. Login and "Bob's your uncle". To increase security you can have cron only allow logins during a specific time period or setup call blocking on the line to only allow calls from certain numbers.

[Michael Regan]

I certainly wouldn't do it, but you could use e-mail to change the password. Use procmail to trigger a script that extracts the users name and the new password from the e-mail message then updates the password file.

A better solution would be to have the modem answer incoming calls. Login and "Bob's your uncle". To increase security you can have cron only allow logins during a specific time period or setup call blocking on the line to only allow calls from certain numbers.