[Fedora-directory-users] userPassword is base64 encoded

Sævaldur Gunnarsson addi at kung.foo.is
Thu Jun 9 00:44:21 UTC 2005


> The question is more on the line of why does it need the user's current 
> password? It's the DS admin who is performing the change.
> 
> It's the same situation if /bin/passwd, when run as root in order to change 
> the password of a local user, asked for the local user's current password.
> 
> I guess it's some sort of policy that DS is implementing.

And can I change this somewhere ?

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Sævaldur Gunnarsson /> RHCE




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