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Old 06-04-2002, 04:01 PM   Postid: 68990
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FQuest Announce: Email Password Management

FutureQuest is pleased to announce the new POPpass Package that provides an additional way to change passwords on POP email accounts.

Up until now account CNC access was required to change a POP Email Password. This meant that only those with full admin access to any particular account had the ability to update passwords for all email users on a particular domain.

Site owners have requested some way to allow email account holders the ability to update their email account passwords without giving them full account access codes. FutureQuest now offers this ability via the freely available POPpass Package.

You will find all of the details by pointing your browser to:
http://www.Aota.net/Email_Extras/POPpass.php4

To summarize: It is now possible to install a script which provides email users the ability to change the passwords for their POP email accounts without requiring access to the CNC to do so.

On the above Aota.net page we make available a fully functional script that satisfies the request for POP Email Password Management! The script may be used as an example for those who choose to write their own and/or as a canned solution for those not yet ready to take on the task of building this type of tool from scratch.

FutureQuest's freely available POPpass Package comes with HTML template pages that may optionally be replaced with your own customized HTML pages. The package includes complete documentation on installation, as well as technical details for the more technically inclined. For those who are interested in the actual shell commands that process the password change, and those who would like to try their hand at writing their own scripts with this capability, please visit the documentation!

Enjoy!

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Old 06-04-2002, 04:56 PM   Postid: 68993
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This is a much needed feature and I'm very happy to see it here, Thank you!

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- When will FQuest start using biometrics?
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Old 06-04-2002, 06:37 PM   Postid: 68995
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Ditto. Thank you for the feature!

BTW, I gather vpasswd will only work for email accounts on the invoking domain name? IOW, it cannot be used by resellers to set-up a centralized secure page where all clients can change accounts pwds.

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Old 06-10-2002, 02:12 PM   Postid: 69315
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When will FQuest start using biometrics?
Don't get too excited about the usefulness of biometrics. This Counterpane article shows how fingerprint readers can be reliably fooled with a little ingenuity and $10 worth of household supplies.
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Old 06-10-2002, 02:57 PM   Postid: 69317
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... and if your account gets compromised, you could be completely buggered. As one security commentator has remarked, biometrics is the password you can't change.
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Old 08-27-2002, 12:17 PM   Postid: 72797
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Sheila, et al:

I just attempted to implement POPPass. I have all the html files modified/customized/fiddled with. I changed every instance of *.html that points to one of those files in poppass.py to *.shtml (for my top and bottom headers). I also modified popform.html (now popform.shtml) for proper values of base_url and html_path.

I am getting "[Tue Aug 27 10:53:08 2002] [error] [client 12.47.112.36] Premature end of script
headers: /big/dom/xskolnick/cgi-bin/poppass/poppass.py" in the error log. The scripts log looks okay as far as I can tell.

I am not a Python guy -- Perl is my idiom. Is there a Python debugger I can step through? Any ideas?
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Old 08-27-2002, 12:24 PM   Postid: 72799
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Hi Dave,

Did you check the cgi trouble shooter within your CNC?

Remembering this from the POPpass installation docs:
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Upload the file poppass.py into the directory /cgi-bin/poppass. Make sure to upload in text mode and set permissions to 755.
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Old 08-27-2002, 12:34 PM   Postid: 72800
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Bob --

Such a good boy! The CNC identified a bad upload mode.

I work in Linux and don't ever worry about upload mode. Never occurred to me. It would seem however that the zip file includes poppass.py with \r\n terminators instead of \n as God intended (no offense to anyone anywhere please I hope -- just trying to make a point).

Somewhere down near the bottom of your lengthy to-do lists, I suggest that any zips and tarballs be set up "right" with just \n line terminators so that those of us who expand them under Linux (or Mac?) don't get surprised by problems our OS choice usually allows us to avoid. Need some contract help? <g>
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Old 08-27-2002, 12:59 PM   Postid: 72804
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I will see that this is taken care of.

I do my tarballs under Linux, as should be, but WinZip seduced me. I went over to the dark side...
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Old 08-27-2002, 01:22 PM   Postid: 72805
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See zip, unzip, gzip, and gunzip under Linux.
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