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Password Changing Utility for Multiuser and Usergroup
(c) 1994 Martin Mares, MJSoft System Software
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Preface
=======
PasswdX and its documentation are Copyright (c) Martin Mares, MJSoft System
Software, Prague, Czech Republic.
This archive can be freely redistributed, as long as all of its files are
included in their original form without any additions, deletions or
modifications, and no more than a nominal fee is charged for its distribution.
All copyright notices in the programs and accompanying documentation files must
remain on their places. Also '.displayme' and other similar files may not be
added. This is generally known as FREEWARE.
Special permission is given to distribute XPasswd and the doc in multiuser or
AmiTCP distribution archives.
This software is provided "AS IS" without warranty of any kind, either
expressed or implied. The author is not responsible for any damage caused by
it.
Assembly source of this program is included, but if you make any changes, I
will be pleased if you send them to me and I'll incorporate them into new
version. Please don't distribute modified versions of this software without my
permission.
Introduction
============
I have installed multiuser a long time ago. And some months ago, AmiTCP
group started to use their own multiuser system -- the usergroup.library which
is de facto a multi-user system for one user (Yes, they say multiuser lacks some
things UNIX has and they need and they're waiting for multiuser 2.0 to come, but
many people think usergroup is only a tool for generating problems).
One of these problems which arise if you have installed both multiuser and
usergroup is that each user has to specify its password *twice*. This utility
is a simple combination of multiuser and usergroup passwd commands which
performs all the required actions after asking the user once.
Also some little improvements have been added in my password input routine:
you can use backspace / delete to erase recently typed character and the typed
characters are shown as asterisks.
XPasswd is pure and can be made resident.
Requirements
============
- Kickstart 2.04 (37.175) or higher and the ss.library version 5 or higher
(included in this archive).
Usage
=====
Log in yourself by the Multiuser login command and run XPasswd from the CLI.
You will be prompted for your old password, new password and the new password
again (as one poem says: P is for passwd which reads in strings twice...). If
the passwords match, both multiuser and usergroup passwords will be changed.
Notes
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Send bug reports, flames and suggestions to <mjsoft@k332.feld.cvut.cz>.