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Post 23942 by J.P on Tuesday 2nd of July 2002 03:05:05 PM
07-02-2002
no problem 
By the way, you can specify any program as your 'shell'.
For example if you want to let your mail user change his/her password you could do this:
# useradd -s /usr/bin/passwd MikeWallace
Or edit any existing mail-user in /etc/passwd, and change their shell to /usr/bin/passwd:
dummy:x:1003:100::/dev/null:/usr/bin/passwd
(your passwd program may be located elsewhere... Try 'which passwd'). Now all Mike Wallace or dummy need to do is use telnet or ssh (use SSH!) to connect to your computer, specify login/pass and then change his password.
Good luck
By the way, you can specify any program as your 'shell'.
For example if you want to let your mail user change his/her password you could do this:
# useradd -s /usr/bin/passwd MikeWallace
Or edit any existing mail-user in /etc/passwd, and change their shell to /usr/bin/passwd:
dummy:x:1003:100::/dev/null:/usr/bin/passwd
(your passwd program may be located elsewhere... Try 'which passwd'). Now all Mike Wallace or dummy need to do is use telnet or ssh (use SSH!) to connect to your computer, specify login/pass and then change his password.
Good luck
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mail(1B) SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands mail(1B) NAME
mail, Mail - interactive message processing system SYNOPSIS
/usr/ucb/mail ... /usr/ucb/Mail ... DESCRIPTION
/usr/ucb/mail and /usr/ucb/Mail are provided as links to /usr/bin/mailx. See mailx(1) for more information on the usage of these commands. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: /usr/ucb/mail +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWscpu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ /usr/ucb/Mail +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWscpu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
mailx(1),attributes(5) SunOS 5.11 19 Aug 1998 mail(1B)