Development

CGIpaf 1.3.5

• What is CGIpaf?

  "cgipaf" allows users to change their un*x Password, Autoreply and mail Forwarding by a web interface.

• Documentation  

  • AUTHORS
  • BUGS
  • COPYING
  • ChangeLog
  • Configuration
  • faq
  • INSTALL
  • README
  • README.vmail
  • README.changepass
  • changepass manpage

• Source Code

  The git repository is available at: https://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/cgipaf.git

• Mailinglist  

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• Support  

  Please post your questions / install problems to mailinglist.

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• Requirements  

  • a Un*x server (only tested with Debian gnu/Linux woody & potato and solaris 8)
  • a mailserver that uses procmail
    (vacation is supported by an external perl mailcfg script)
  • a webserver
  • gcc, ndbm or gdbm

• License  

  GNU General Public License.

• Downloads  

  • Source code: https://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/cgipaf.git
  • Download the lastest release from:https://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/cgipaf/.

• Overview  

  cgipaf is a combination of three cgi programs:

  passwd.cgi	:	allow users to update their password
  viewmailcfg.cgi	:	allow users to view their current mail configuration.
  mailcfg.cgi	:	update the mail configuration

  • All programs use PAM for user authentication, systems without PAM are only supported if they use the standard password file location (/etc/passwd /etc/shadow) and the standard crypt or md5 passwords.
  • If a password is changed it is possible to run a script to update SAMBA passwords, NIS configuration, etc.
  • The mail configuration is done by procmail, mailcfg.cgi creates a .procmailrc in the user's home directory. If autoreply is enabled the autoreply message is stored in ~/vacations.txt. When a user enables mail forwarding the user can choose to keep the messages.
  • For user authentication viewmailcfg.cgi creates a cookie, this cookie is stored in the accessdb. mailcfg.cgi reads the cookie out the accessdb and compares it with the cookie send by the users browser.
  • User with too many invalid logins can be locked.
  • The minimum and maximum uid can be set in the configuration file, so you can specify a range of uid's that are allowed to use cgipasswd.
  • You can specify html files with a few PHP extensions for the login screen and error messages.
  • It's possible to use a redirect for the error messages, instead of plain html files.
  • It's is possible to define an external script to update the the mail configuration to support other mail configurations than procmail a sample script with vacation support is included.
  • CGIpaf also contains the "changepass" utility which is basically a clone of the chpasswd (8) Linux command, it might be useful on platforms that doesn't have such a command like Solaris. See the changepass manpage for more information.

• Screenschots