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category: ''
date: 2007/05/18 13:42
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slug: BBS42
tags: programming, python, linux
title: RA-WebPass
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updated: 2007/05/18 13:42
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**The problem:** Your users need to change their passwords in a linux system.

**The solution:** A webpage to do just that.

**Requires:**

* Colubrid_

* checkpassword-pam_

**How it works:**

1. You run it on the box whose passwords need changing. 

2. Your users access http://your.server:8080

3. They change their passwords

.. _colubrid: http://wsgiarea.pocoo.org/colubrid/

.. _checkpassword-pam: http://checkpasswd-pam.sourceforge.net

**Configuration:**

Probably you don't need to do anything. If it doesn't work right, 
try checking this piece of the script:

.. code-block:: python

   #################
   ## Configuration
   #################
   
   port=8080
   chpasswd='/usr/sbin/chpasswd'
   checkpassword-pam='/usr/bin/checkpassword-pam'
   pam_service='xdm'
   
   #################
   ## That's it
   #################

If you want to change the look of the webpage, change the contents of the webpage variable in the script. It's the one that has HTML in it.

**Download:** 

ra-webpass.py_

.. _ra-webpass.py: http://lateral.netmanagers.com.ar/static/ra-webpass.py

**License:** MIT