Re: [PROPOSAL] 'Change Password GUI'

[shakti <shprasad novell com>]

Diego Gonzalez wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 18:10 +0530, shakti wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I would like to propose gnome-passwd (a password change GUI) for GNOME 2.12.
> >
> > GNOME currently doesn't have a GUI to change the user's  password. This 
> > GUI can be integrated as part GNOME control-center using which users can 
> > change thier password without having to go to command line.
> >    
>
> There is a capplet on the control-center that i wrote it has some 
> support for changing the password of a user,
> it uses the passwd command thorugh a pipe (using code i stole from 
> gnome-system-tools) to change it, the capplet
> mostly works, but there are some things that need to be finished 
> before that capplet can be enable in the
> default build. I you want to improve the code to change the password 
> or finish the loose ends of the capplet go
> ahead, it is called about-me.

I wrote gnome-passwd as a simple and light-weight utility for 2.12 
timeframe. It is designed to use PAM authentication directly to allow 
the use of any new features which PAM might provide in future. So, 
essentially, I do not use the 'passwd' utility.

I agree about-me handles more user information. However, I need to look 
into it further.

As we stand today, gnome-passwd is a ready-to-be-integrated tool, which 
would help users change their password without the root passwd contraint.

Thanks for your review comments.

- Shakti