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Title: Password changes
Post by: mark on June 15, 2000, 07:22:00 PM
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?
Title: RE: Password changes
Post by: Michael Regan on June 17, 2000, 06:15:44 AM
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.
Title: RE: Password changes
Post by: Michael Regan on June 17, 2000, 06:16:03 AM
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.