Re: Change Passwd Via Telnet through a Perl WWW Script
On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 02:14:10AM -0400, Phillip Hofmeister wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 at 12:20:30PM +1000, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> > I think a combination of sudo and chpasswd would be good for this.
> I don't, that introduces scripting vulnerabilities (remote root), the one thing
> I wanted to avoid. Using telnet vs. su or sudo you avoid escalated privs...
Umm, the telnet will need to login as root, right? So how is this any less
secure?
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> There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those that can do binary
> arithmetic and those that can't.
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