$Id: README,v 1.4 2007-04-03 08:25:06 hngott Exp $

This is openpoppassd, a deamon which enables the changing of 
Passwords over a local TCP/IP socket. It is useful, if you want 
to enable user to change their password through a webfrontend running
in a chanrooted webserver.

It is build and tested on OpenBSD 4.1

It consists of one file (openpoppassd) which has to be
startet via the rc.local.

For that you have to create a user _poppassd. We suggest a user

_poppass:584:584:daemon:Password change daemon:/var/empty:/sbin/nologin

and a corresponding group.

Also you have to add

poppassd        106/tcp

to your /etc/services file.

This mechanism is for example used, by the Horde passwd-module. 

Due to the fact, that in OpenBSD's portstree a poppassd exists, it was
renamed in 2007-04 to openpoppassd; as it uses privilege separation like
openntpd.


(C) 2005-2007 OSTC GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany
Authors: Thomas Birnthaler, Hermann Gottschalk
         openpoppassd@ostc.de
