[K12OSN] How to change own user password
John Lucas
mrjohnlucas at gmail.com
Tue Mar 11 12:12:24 UTC 2008
Krsnendu dasa wrote:
> Does this work for non-root users? When I tried something similar in the
> pass only root could change passwords. It seemed that users could change
> their own passwds, but they never actually changed. Maybe it was the way
> smbldap was set up. It thought that a way around this would be to make a
> script that runs sudo that calls the smbldap passwd script. all users
> would need sudo rights to run just the script.
>
It works for me. If only root can change passwords, then you may need to
check our your LDAP configuration to make sure that the password
attributes (all 3 of them) are writeable by the user. A simple ACL
*similar* to this should work:
# basic password protection -jrl
access to attrs=userpassword,sambaLMpassword,sambaNTpassword
by dn="uid=root,ou=Users,dc=ascs,dc=net" write
by self write
by * auth
access to *
by dn="uid=root,ou=Users,dc=ascs,dc=net" write
by * read
> On 07/03/2008, *John Lucas* <mrjohnlucas at gmail.com
> <mailto:mrjohnlucas at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> ml at bortal.de <mailto:ml at bortal.de> wrote:
> > Hello List,
> >
> > how can the users change their own password in a unix shell?
> >
> > foobar at PDC:~$ passwd
> > Enter login(LDAP) password:
> > New password:
> > Re-enter new password:
> > LDAP password information update failed: Unknown error
> >
> > passwd: Permission denied
> >
>
>
> If you are using SMBLDAP then using "smbpasswd" works to change both the
> Unix and Samba passwords stored in LDAP, just make sure that it acts
> on the PDC. Assuming the PDC is named "pdchost":
>
> smbpasswd -r pdchost username
>
> It will prompt for for old and new passwords. You can put it on a GUI
> menu with xterm:
>
> xterm -e "smbpasswd -r pdchost $USER"
>
>
>
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>
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