Re: [SM-PLUGINS] I'm getting an error: To test the chpasswd utility from the command line, do this:

[Tomas K. <to...@us...>]

> Hello guys,
>
> Almost a week I'm trying to install password changer plugin in
> Squirrelmail.
> But I couldn't. Could you please, help me with this problem
>
> I tryed to install change_passwd-4.0-1.2.8.tar.gz +
> compatibility-2.0.4.tar.gz on Suse 10.1,
> (using courier-imap-4.0.4-3.i586.rpm, postfix-2.2.5-5, php 4.4.0,
> squirrelmail-1.4.6)
> but when I'm trying to change password it returns me this error:
>
> To test the chpasswd utility from the command line, do this:
> cd /srv/www/htdocs/plugins
>
> ../plugins/change_passwd/chpasswd 'some_user' 'testoldpassword'
> 'testnewpassword' 2>&1
>
>
> I tryed it in command line and it works well:
> cd /srv/www/htdocs/plugins/change_passwd#  ./chpasswd 'nu'
> 'testoldpassword'
> 'testnewpassword' 2>&1
> The password was modified successfully
>
> Do you have any idea?

Are you using php in safe_mode?

Have you tried to execute chpasswd as webserver user and not as root?

> P. S. I tryed to use change_pass utility, but there is no poppassd utility
> for SuSE Linux.

You have wget, tar, gcc, make and pam-devel on SuSE.
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cd /usr/local/src
wget http://echelon.pl/pubs/poppassd-1.8.5.tar.gz
tar -xzvf poppassd-1.8.5.tar.gz
cd poppassd-1.8.5
make
install -g bin -o root -m 500 poppassd /usr/local/sbin
cat README | more
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replace all /usr/sbin with /usr/local/sbin

-- 
Tomas