[ale] scripting passwd change

[Jeremy T. Bouse]

	Actually it's a lil more involved than this if you actually want
to completely automate the process. I ran into this because the PAM 
mechanism itself will actually prompt you to enter the old and new
password... When I was doing it I ended up going with C to write the
routine and basically short-circuit'd the user prompts and got it to
the application to answer the PAM requests itself...

	Respectfully,
	Jeremy T. Bouse
	UnderGrid Network Services, LLC

Fletch was said to been seen saying:
> 
> http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Authen-PAM
> 
> Examples 
> 
> Here is an example of using PAM for changing the password of the
> current user: 
> 
>   use Authen::PAM;
> 
> 
>   $login_name = getpwuid($<);
> 
> 
>   pam_start("passwd", $login_name, $pamh);
>   pam_chauthtok($pamh);
>   pam_end($pamh);
> 
> 
> or the same thing but using OO style: 
> 
>   $pamh = new Authen::PAM("passwd", $login_name);
>   $pamh->pam_chauthtok;
>   $pamh = 0;  # Force perl to call the destructor for the $pamh
> 
> 
> 
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