Change a UNIX password via web UI
Project description
This packages provides a web UI for the UNIX passwd command, e.g. so that SFTP-only user accounts can still change their password.
Usage
Set up your webserver to run the CGI script. Here’s an example apache configuration snippet:
ScriptAlias /passwd /path/to/venv/bin/webpasswd-cgi
As changing the password for another user requires root access, you also need to setup passwordless sudo execution for the webpasswd-change helper. Add a rule like this, e.g. in /etc/sudoers.d/webpasswd:
www-data ALL=NOPASSWD:/path/to/venv/bin/webpasswd-change
(www-data means the user the webserver executing the CGI script runs as.)
You can pass the following environment variables to the CGI script:
- WEBPASSWD_CHANGE:
Path to webpasswd-change helper. If unset, assumes a virtualenv installation (so it’s located next to webpasswd-cgi)
- WEBPASSWD_STYLESHEET:
URL to a stylesheet to link to instead of using the built-in styles
Running tests
You’ll need to add a user account webpasswd, and interactively during the test run reset its password as instructed.
CHANGES
2.2.0 (2024-06-03)
Changes
stdin: Transmit password via stdin instead of cli parameters (stdin)
2.1.0 (2023-04-04)
Changes
Update to python-pam 2.0 API (pam)
Drop Python-2 support (py2)
Switch from setup.py to pyproject.toml (wheel)
2.0.1 (2018-03-05)
Handle PATH_INFO internally
2.0.0 (2018-03-04)
Rewrite using python-pam, Flask, Python-3 compatible, pip-installable.
1.0.0 (2008-07-10)
First working version, using PyPAM.so and webpy.org
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