Re: [webmin-l] Changing LDAP user's password

"Jamie Cameron" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.webmin.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 12/Jun/2016 21:21 Paul R. Ganci <[email protected]> wrote ..
> I tried to use the Change Password module to change a LDAP user's 
> password and it did not work. I have two questions related to this problem.
> 
> 1.) I limited which modules the Webmin user could access. The Change 
> Password module was accessible but the LDAP server module was not. 
> Pretty much most modules are off limits to the admin with the Webmin 
> access. Does limiting access to other modules prevent the Change 
> Password module from changing the LDAP user's password in the LDAP database?

No - as long as the change password module detects that a user is stored
in LDAP, it will perform the password update there as well.

> 2.) Is it possible to create a custom command instead of allowing Webmin 
> to work directly on the system data. For example, from the Change 
> Password module the /*user*/ and /*newpassword*/ are provided. If it 
> were possible to create a custom command ala:
> 
> ldappasswd -D cn=Manager,dc=example,dc=com -y /etc/openldap/secret -s 
> /*newpassword*/ uid=/*user*/,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com
> 
> where the /*newpassword*/ and /*user*/ as found from the forms then this 
> custom command would do the trick I need. Can a "Command to change 
> password"  be constructed in the box such that the form data is used or 
> equivalently are there variables available for /*newpassword*/ and 
> /*user*/ found from the forms?
> 
> Thanks for your suggestions.

Currently, no - the change password module only updates either /etc/passwd
or LDAP directly.


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