password change in $iwhome/etc/shadow file

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I have to read the Old Password , New Password from CGI form after that validate the old password with the Password in $iwhome/etc/shadow file . If Old password matches with the existing one in shadow file, I have to modify the password with the new password. Since the password in $iwhome/etc/shadow file is encrypted, Is anyone have the experience of how to do this..

TeamSite 6.1.0
SunOS 5.9

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Adam Stoller

Is this a workflow issue?
or a custom menu item issue?
Are you trying to find a solution in Perl? Java? C? C++? C#? something else?

--fish
Senior Consultant, Quotient Inc.
http://www.quotient-inc.com

pratap

I am trying to find a soultion in Perl .

Adam Stoller

In what context are you trying to find a solution in Perl?

You posted on the workflow forum - is this for a workflow?
You posted on the templating form - is this for a DCT/DCR/PT ?
Or is this for a custom menu item ?

Or is this for something completely divorced from TeamSite altogether?

In general, I believe the control over what passwords are considered acceptable is handled at the OS-level because there should not be any [trivial] way for you to decode the passwords in the /etc/shadow file to do what you were suggesting.

You could trap the prompted-for information and run it through Perl and Expect (http://expect.nist.gov/) to verify certain basic requirements before passing it on to the actual passwd program (e.g., like whether or not it begins with an alphabetic characters, whether or not it contains any numeric and/or non-alphpabetic characters, etc.

--fish
Senior Consultant, Quotient Inc.
http://www.quotient-inc.com