changing the password through Web..

Anon

Hi,

My web page having an authication..for that i need to change my password through web page...for that i can able to change my password from root..like this
/usr/bin/htpasswd -b filename username passwd

same command when i write it in php programming its not working...
can u tell me why this commad is not working..while running this command also i am not getting any errors...if u can able to solve this problem i am very greatful to u...

thanks in Advance

Tulasi

Anon

hello rama,

the problem might be that your webserver
is running as user 'nobody' group 'nogroup'.

this would result in not being allowed
to open the passwordfile for writing.

you can check for the user as which the server is running (if you are using apache webserver) in the httpd.conf.
so, when you know which is the user do
a 'su username' and then try to enter the
same command into the console.

if this doesnt work ('fopen: Permission denied') the problem is clear...

then you could change the write-permissions
or even the owner of the password-file to the
appropriate values - but i am not sure if i
would recommend this (for security reason)!

you also could check the webservers error_log
for getting an idea whats going wrong...

hth
chris

Anon

Hi Chris,

Thanks a lot for your valuble answer to me.. i have gone through your answer and and i have given the same command at console its updating my password file successfully...but when i run the same command from my php programe it is not working...and also it not giving any error also...
can u give me any suggestions..please.

Thanx in Advance.
Tulasi

Anon

hello rama,

if you don't mind send the piece of code,
which you use for the update.
i then try to figure out the problem on my machine...

chris

Anon

Hi Cris,

How are you...here is my code sample. when i run it from my console its updating it...but from my web page its not working...

<?PHP
if (($pass1 != $pass2) && ($pass1 != ""))
{
echo "<TABLE BGCOLOR=\"c0c0c0\" WIDTH=100% BORDER=\"0\"CELLSPACI
NG=\"0\"><TR><TD VALIGN=top><FONT SIZE=\"+2\" COLOR=\"#CC0000\">WARNING</FONT>:<
/TD>";
echo "<TD>The passwords you supplied do not match or are blank<BR>";
echo "No password update has been enacted<BR>";
echo "Please retype the passwords again</TD>";
echo "</TR></TABLE>";
} else {
if ($pass1 != "")
{
echo "<TABLE BGCOLOR=\"c0c0c0\" WIDTH=100% BORDER=\"0\"CELLSPACING=\"0\"><TR><TD VALIGN=top><FONT SIZE=\"+2\" COLOR=\"#CC0000\">NOTICE</FONT>:</TD>";
echo "<TD>The passwords you supplied match<BR>";
$temp = htpasswd -b /var/www/html/cybercity/pass/password cybercity $pass1;
if ( $temp != 0 ) {
echo "...HOWEVER, I wasn't able to update the password file. Permission problems maybe?";
} else {
echo "Successfully updated the password for 'cybercity'";
}
echo "</TR></TABLE>";
}
}

i hope you can solve my problem...

ThanQ in Advance..

Tulasi