RE: ldappasswd questions

["Brian Johnson" <bjohnson@jecinc.on.ca>]

Thanks - that worked

One less question for me to worry about



-----Original Message-----
From: Edwin Culp [mailto:eculp@encontacto.net]
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 3:52 PM
To: Brian Johnson
Cc: openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
Subject: Re: ldappasswd questions


something like:

ldappasswd -x -D 'cn=Manager,o=jecinc.on.ca' -w "YourAdminPassword" \
-s "NewPasswordForUser" 'uid=Brian,ou=people,o=jecinc.on.ca'

should work.

Hope that helps
ed
Quoting Brian Johnson <bjohnson@jecinc.on.ca>:

> I have a few questions regarding authenticating with ldap:
>
> Is there a way for an authorized user (like root) to set a new passwd for
a
> user without knowing their current passwd?  (in case of forgotten passwd)
>
> Is there a script (or other method) available that would allow a system
> admin to force a password change at set intervals?
>
> Is there a way to check new passwords to make sure they are relatively
safe
> passwords?
>
> I think this has come up before, but I couldn't find anything in the
> mailing
> list archives ...
> My users are MS Windowfied, is there a web based password change utility
> that would give them a method for changing their own passwords?
>
>


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