Re: [cpx] Restrict Users from changing their password (fwd)

[Jonathan Duncan <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

You may be happy to know that I am not as braindead as I had thought.  I 
remembered the reason that I only had the one line in that script and was 
not passing anything to the real pw program.  It was because I was trying 
to see what was being passed to the pw program by CPX.  However, the log 
file never had anything in it when I would run the change password 
function in CPX so I was not sure what to pass on to the real pw program. 
Bruce, thanks for the extra line, I was not sure how to call that.

Jonathan


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Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 15:16:52 -0700 (MST)
From: Jonathan Duncan <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: cpx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [cpx] Restrict Users from changing their password

Ummm... duh!  Ok, I was brain-dead when I wrote that.  There is absolutely 
nothing in that script that passes anything to the real pw.  Sorry to bother 
everyone.  Slap me with the silly stick.

Jonathan



On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Bruce Armstrong wrote:

> It doesn't look like you passed the information on to the real pw.  If
> you are just looking to log for a while, your script should look like
> this:
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> echo "$@" >> /path/to/blah.txt
> exec /path/to/real/pw $@
>
> 	--Bruce
>
> On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 22:24 -0700, Jonathan Duncan wrote:
> > On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Jared Betteridge wrote:
> >
> > > Another option would be to write a wrapper for pw.  You'd rename pw to
> > > something like /usr/sbin/pw.real, and then write a wrapper script named
> > > /usr/sbin/pw that calls your custom programs when certain things happen and
> > > then passes on everything to the real pw.
> > >
> > > Jared Betteridge
> >
> > I tried your suggestion, I renamed pw and in place of it put a simple
> > script to catch anything being passed to it to be logged to a file so I
> > could find out what CPX was trying to send to pw.
> >
> > However, with that script in place I go into CPX and change my password,
> > and CPX tells me that the password has been changed, no errors, so I log
> > out.  I try to log back in with the new password and it will not work.
> > The old one still works.  I rename the real pw script back into place and
> > then I am in fact able to change my password with CPX.
> >
> > This is perhaps out of the scope of this list and off topic, so if that is
> > the case just tell me and I will go sulk and try looking for answers
> > elsewhere.
> >
> > -rwxrwxrwx  1 root  wheel  309 Dec 11 04:34 pw
> > -rwxrwxrwx  1 root  wheel  24  Dec 11 04:35 blah.txt
> >
> > -------------
> > #!/bin/sh
> > echo "$@" >> blah.txt;
> > -------------
> >
> > > From the command line it works:
> >
> > /usr/sbin# pw var1 var2 var3 var4 var5 var6
> > /usr/sbin# cat blah.txt
> > var1 var2 var3 var4 var5 var6
> > /usr/sbin#
> >
> > Then again, I am an ultra beginner with shell scripts.
> >
> > Jonathan
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