changing unix password via www python script

[Andrew MacIntyre]

On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Vesemir wrote:

> How to change unix account password by python script?
> I want to write www script, controled by form.

Its clumsy and trouble prone, but what I did was use one of the expect
modules (PyExpect?- can't remember for sure), and telnetted to localhost
and executed the password command.  This was in a Solaris environment,
where the passwd program refused to deal with input from a pipe.

I'm open to better ways.

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