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Re: passwd

That's a security reason of passwd.

When you go away from the computer without locking the computer then
another person can change the (LDAP) password without passwd can check
if you are who you are

On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 10:15, Krisztian K. wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> is there a way to disable "Enter login(LDAP) password" feature of passwd,
> when changing passwd for an ldap user? It is not the root who wants to
> change the password but the user himself. Why do he need to give his
> password again, does't he have an open ldap session?
> 
> Krisztian
>