Re: [K12OSN] How to change own user password

["Krsnendu dasa" <krsnendu108 gmail com>]

Thanks. Which config file would I put this?

On 12/03/2008, John Lucas <mrjohnlucas gmail com> wrote:
> Krsnendu dasa wrote:
>  > Does this work for non-root users? When I tried something similar in the
>  > pass only root could change passwords. It seemed that users could change
>  > their own passwds, but they never actually changed. Maybe it was the way
>  > smbldap was set up. It thought that a way around this would be to make a
>  > script that runs sudo that calls the smbldap passwd script. all users
>  > would need sudo rights to run just the script.
>  >
>
>
> It works for me. If only root can change passwords, then you may need to
>  check our your LDAP configuration to make sure that the password
>  attributes (all 3 of them) are writeable by the user. A simple ACL
>  *similar* to this should work:
>
>  # basic password protection -jrl
>  access to attrs=userpassword,sambaLMpassword,sambaNTpassword
>     by dn="uid=root,ou=Users,dc=ascs,dc=net" write
>     by self write
>     by * auth
>
>  access to *
>     by dn="uid=root,ou=Users,dc=ascs,dc=net" write
>     by * read
>
>
>
>
>  > On 07/03/2008, *John Lucas* <mrjohnlucas gmail com
>
> > <mailto:mrjohnlucas gmail com>> wrote:
>
> >
>  >     ml bortal de <mailto:ml bortal de> wrote:
>  >      > Hello List,
>  >      >
>  >      > how can the users change their own password in a unix shell?
>  >      >
>  >      > foobar PDC:~$ passwd
>  >      > Enter login(LDAP) password:
>  >      > New password:
>  >      > Re-enter new password:
>  >      > LDAP password information update failed: Unknown error
>  >      >
>  >      > passwd: Permission denied
>  >      >
>  >
>  >
>  >     If you are using SMBLDAP then using "smbpasswd" works to change both the
>  >       Unix and Samba passwords stored in LDAP, just make sure that it acts
>  >     on the PDC. Assuming the PDC is named "pdchost":
>  >
>  >             smbpasswd -r pdchost username
>  >
>  >     It will prompt for for old and new passwords. You can put it on a GUI
>  >     menu with xterm:
>  >
>  >             xterm -e "smbpasswd -r pdchost $USER"
>  >
>  >
>  >
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