Re: How to let users change their passwords?

[Steven Truong <midair77@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 8:22 AM, Buchan Milne
<bgmilne@staff.telkomsa.net> wrote:
> On Friday, 23 July 2010 21:49:36 Steven Truong wrote:
>> Dear, all.  I have been searching low and high for a tool that can let
>> users to change their passwords in 389 DS or OpenLDAP?  I think there
>> is a real need for such a tool and I hope that people already wrote
>> such a tool...
>>
>> Please share your ways of how you allow your users to change their
>> passwords or other setup/architecture that allow this function.
>>
>> Beside that, I also recommend Apache Studio as a great tool to work
>> with LDAP servers.....
>> Thank you in advance.
>
> For users who don't authenticate via PAM or similar, I wrote a simple perl CGI
> (which supports ppolicy):
>
> http://staff.telkomsa.net/~bgmilne/ldap/ldap-passwd.pl
>
> I use it in conjunction with a script to notify users of their impending
> password expiry:
>
> http://staff.telkomsa.net/~bgmilne/ldap/find-ldap-expired.pl
>
> They share config files, but you can use the first without the 2nd.
>
> I have only used it against OpenLDAP so far, but I might need to add support
> for AD soon ...
>
> Regards,
> Buchan
>

Thank you very much for your responses.  Those were some very valuable
information and I am definitely going to try some of your
suggestions....