More fun with LDAP

[Dan]

I dont think passwd has any ldap capabilities, so attempting to lock an
account stored in LDAP using passwd(1) wont work.

I tried this here and got the same error as you. strace seems to show
passwd looking in /etc/passwd for the given user.

Dan


On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 12:47, Mark A. Hoover wrote:
> I'm hoping there's somebody out there with some LDAP experience.  I've 
> run across something for which I haven't found an answer on Google.
> 
> I recently tried to use the passwd lock function on an account and 
> received the following:
> 
> [root at testbox root]$ passwd -l tuser
> Locking password for user tuser.
> passwd: Error (password not set?)
> 
> The username exists and I can login as that user.  I can also change the 
> user's password without any problems.
> 
> [root at testbox root]$ passwd tuser
> Changing password for user tuser.
> New password:
> Retype new password:
> LDAP password information changed for tuser
> passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.
> 
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> 
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> -----------------------------------------------------
> Mark Hoover
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