Re: Changing password from outside

[Dominik George <dominik.george@teckids.org>]

Hi Petter,

> What about using pam-python to write a PAM module for changing
> passwords, that update everything GOsa would do.  This way a simple
> 'passwd' command would work, any program using PAM would work and the
> need to block the normal password change process to point people to GOsa
> would go away.
> 
> Not quite sure what you mean by 'outside', so it might not be a good
> option.

Yep, that would not really qualify for "not SSH'ing in and write
expect scripts", but make that a lot easier if it turns out to be the
only feasible way.

Does anyone know what GOsa effectively does, in order, without
dissecting its code ;)?

Cheers,
Nik

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