[389-users] how does user change PW?

[Chandrasekar Kannan]

On 12/02/2009 10:39 AM, Alan McKay wrote:
> OK, I've got auth figured out for Linux login.
>
> This is a good thing.   A very good thing!
>
> Now, if a user does "passwd" on the Linux box, I see that it updates
> their LDAP password.
>
> Another very good thing!
>
> But I'm going to have non-Linux users too.  I'm not adventurous enough
> at this point to set up a WIndows NT domain or anything like that for
> the windows users, so I'll just do local-login for them at the moment.
>   But they will still have to go to websites and such which ask them to
> authenticate.   I don't yet have apache LDAP auth working, but I'm
> sure it will prove to be reasonably easy.
>
> Once I get that done, I'll need a way for these users to change the
> passwords.   In a pinch I guess I could ask them to download putty and
> SSH into a Linux box.   But that just seems ugly.
>
> Is there a good web-based plugin for this that I can just grab
> "off-the-shelf" without having to roll my own?
>    

I would think the Directory Server Gateway/Phonebook webapp
should allow you to do that...
http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/DSGW

--Chandra