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Help in setting up password without Interaction.
Post 8148 by rwb1959 on Saturday 6th of October 2001 04:11:05 PM
10-06-2001
Ahhh... this clarifies your first posting
considerably
The short answer... I don't know if that can be
done but if it could, it would seem like a
security hole. Since the passwd program should not
accept input from anything other than an actual
"tty" attached to stdin. Having said that, a C
program run as root can pretty much do anything.
You may consider writing your own C program
to do it or look around (maybe as part of a
root kit or somthing but I woun't recommend
those
) for some code fragments.
considerably
The short answer... I don't know if that can be
done but if it could, it would seem like a
security hole. Since the passwd program should not
accept input from anything other than an actual
"tty" attached to stdin. Having said that, a C
program run as root can pretty much do anything.
You may consider writing your own C program
to do it or look around (maybe as part of a
root kit or somthing but I woun't recommend
those
) for some code fragments.|
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