Re: Changing user credentials in Pegasus on Linux

Thank you Ashok/Marek,
This gives me good information. I might have to get back to you folks with
more questions.
Anuj


On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Marek Szermutzky
<[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi Anuj!
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> I have right now a feature request on the table about allowing remote
> change of a user's password. Though in this specific case invented to allow
> an update of an expired password, the same mechanism probably could be
> used. As Ashok wrote, on Linux people usually use PAM to handle their
> authentication needs.
>
> The Bug report for this is:
> http://bugzilla.openpegasus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9641 , planned to be
> implemented in OpenPegasus 2.13.
>
>
> Kind regards
> Marek Szermutzky
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> From:        Ashok K Pathak <[email protected]>
> To:        Anuj Jain <[email protected]>,
> Cc:        "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> Date:        10.05.2013 11:16
> Subject:        Re: Changing user credentials in Pegasus on Linux
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> Pegasus does  authentication/password management using system
> user/passwords (PAM)
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> In other words,  Pegasus exploits PAM to  authentication & password
> management
> The PAM conf file for  Open Pegasus uses is usually
> named /etc/pam.d/wbem.
>
> For Setting up PAM authentication refer notes.txt  in folder
> pegasus/src/Executor
>
> >>>>
>      First compile with PEGASUS_PAM_AUTHENTICATION.
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>        Next install the PAM configuration file.
>
>            % cd $PEGASUS_ROOT
>            % cp rpm/wbem /etc/pam.d
>            % chmod 0644 /etc/pam.d/wbem
>
>      To build for standalone PAM authentication, compile with these:
>
>            PEGASUS_PAM_AUTHENTICATION
>            PEGASUS_USE_PAM_STANDALONE_PROC
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>       To run cimserver to use PAM
>            enableAuthentication=true
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> <<<<
> Hope it helps.
>
> Regards
> Ashok
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>             Anuj Jain
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> Hi,
> I am trying to figure out the right way of changing user credentials using
> Pegasus. This is on a Linux GNU x64 platform.
> The user in questions is the current user logged into the cimserver. The
> operation needs to modify the password of this user and the expectation is
> that the new password is used not only for the cimuser but also when this
> user logs in to the Linux box, say using ssh.
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> What would be the logical steps to implementint something like this?
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> Thanks a lot!
> Anuj
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