[TriLUG] poppassd and ldap

[Ben Simpson]

Another funny thing is that I tried it on my linux workstation by 
accident and it worked. It changed the ldap password for the user Ben on 
the server.  So I looked at the /etc/pam.d/passwd file and it doesn't 
even have anything that has ldap in it.
Ben

Tanner Lovelace wrote:

>On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 16:42, ben at silextech.com wrote:
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>>>From looking at this website it is run as root.
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>>http://netwinsite.com/poppassd/#Poppassd
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>>So I tried to do a passwd logged in as root and found that this is the problem.
>>But not sure how to fix it.
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>Ah, that makes sense.  Running the passwd command as root when using
>local files will work fine, but ldap has it's own access control
>system.  You could check into setting up a proxy user, but that's
>getting way beyond my knowledge of ldap.  Anyone else have any 
>suggestions?
>
>Cheers,
>Tanner
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>

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