[Fedora-directory-users] Previous password still works?

Richard Megginson rmeggins at redhat.com
Thu Apr 26 19:39:09 UTC 2007


Chris Halstead wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I've been googling 'til my eyes bleed but I can't find anything on this.
>
> We're using FDS 1.0.2 and I recently used the admin console (logged in 
> as myself, not as the admin account) to change my personal account 
> password.  The new password worked, so far so good.  The problem is 
> that my *old* password still worked as well.  Everywhere.  Login 
> through PAM, login to the FDS admin console, you name it.
So, both old and new password work everywhere?  pam too?  Have you tried 
the command line ldapsearch?
>
> After doing some testing I've found that if I change my password 
> logged in as myself the old password will still work, yet if I change 
> it logged in with our admin user account only the new one works.  What 
> am I missing?
>
> I was planning on putting together a web-form for user password 
> changes (using the user's credentials to bind), but if user password 
> changes won't invalidate old passwords I'm going to have to change my 
> approach.
>
> -chris
>
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