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Sun Jun 2 12:36:39 EDT 2013


http://netwinsite.com/poppassd/#Poppassd

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.

Quoting Tanner Lovelace <lovelace at wayfarer.org>:

> Hmm.. well in that case, have you checked that the ldap passwords
> can be changed from the command line using something like the passwd
> command (which, presumably also uses pam).  If it doesn't work there,
> it probably won't work in poppassd either.  If it does work there,
> check to see what user poppassd is being run as.  I'd give good
> odds it's probably defaulting to the web server user, which 
> most likely doesn't have the permissions to change passwords.
> 
> Cheers,
> Tanner
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 16:01, Ben Simpson wrote:
> > Sorry,
> > Yeah I replaced the real username in this email with the word "user" .
> 
> >  I was testing the password change on another username.  Not mine.
> :)
> > 
> > 
> > Tanner Lovelace wrote:
> > 
> > >On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 15:26, Ben Simpson wrote:
> > >  
> > >
> > >>Jan  7 15:23:02 thor poppassd[5173]: connect from silextech.com
> > >>Jan  7 15:23:02 thor poppassd[5173]: pam_ldap: error trying to bind
> as user "uid=user,ou=People,o=silex technologies;c=us" (Invalid
> credentials)
> > >>Jan  7 15:23:02 thor poppassd[5173]: pam_ldap: ldap_modify_s
> Insufficient access
> > >>Jan  7 15:23:02 thor poppassd[5173]: PAM error: LDAP password
> information update failed: Insufficient access
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>I am trying to get imp to use poppassd to change user's passwords
> over the web.
> > >>I am getting the above in the system logs. It doesn't look like it
> is working but I can change passwords on the webpage.  I don't know if
> it is "actually" working or not
> > >>    
> > >>
> > >
> > >Well, presumably uid should be something other than just "user"
> (i.e.
> > >it should be the actual user login name).  That would be where I
> > >would look first. :-)
> > >
> > >Cheers,
> > >Tanner
> > >  
> > >
> > 
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