[Fedora-directory-users] Password

[Rob Crittenden]

Per Qvindesland wrote:
> Hi 
> 
> Thanks for replying, i will try but could you please give me a clue on where
> I might find this file?
> 
> Kind regards
> Per Qvindesland
> 
> 
> On 2/13/09 10:30 PM, "Rob Crittenden" <rcritten at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>> You can put this just about anywhere in there, I'd put it around where
>> we check for and set homeDirectory, etc.
> 

I think the change should look something like (untested):

diff --git a/ipa-server/xmlrpc-server/funcs.py 
b/ipa-server/xmlrpc-server/funcs.
index cf9e7de..d5bbab2 100644
--- a/ipa-server/xmlrpc-server/funcs.py
+++ b/ipa-server/xmlrpc-server/funcs.py
@@ -623,6 +623,9 @@ class IPAServer:
          if user.get('gn'):
              del user['gn']

+        if not user.get('userpassword'):
+            user['userpassword'] = user['uid']
+
          # some required objectclasses
          entry.setValues('objectClass', 
(config.get('ipauserobjectclasses')))

On an installed system this is in 
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/ipaserver/funcs.py

rob